App Dev Worksheet: Accessibility
Developer's tip (Design for everyone): Our rule: text is at least 16 px; every icon has a text label for screen readers. Add captions to videos; never use colour as the only clue. Big touch targets and strong contrast help everyone.
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- 1.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) text that can grow (b) fast-flashing lights (c) icons with no labels (d) tiny tap areas
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2.♿ Our rule: text is at least 16 px. Which text on this screen is too small?
Menu: 28 px
Footer: 26 px
Title: 14 px
Hint: 17 px (a) Hint (b) Menu (c) Footer (d) Title -
3.♿ Our rule: text is at least 16 px. Which text on this screen is too small?
Footer: 22 px
Menu: 17 px
Label: 12 px (a) Menu (b) Footer (c) Label - 4.♿ A screen has 9 icon buttons. Only 2 of them have a text label for screen readers. How many still need a label?
- 5.Which of these helps everyone use the app? (a) icons with no labels (b) tiny tap areas (c) fast-flashing lights (d) text that can grow
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6.♿ Our rule: text is at least 16 px. Which text on this screen is too small?
Body text: 24 px
Caption: 20 px
Label: 12 px
Menu: 26 px
Title: 17 px (a) Body text (b) Caption (c) Menu (d) Label - 7.True or false: “tiny tap areas” makes the app harder to use. (a) False (b) True
- 8.True or false: “big touch targets” makes the app harder to use. (a) True (b) False
- 9.True or false: “labels on every icon” helps everyone use the app. (a) True (b) False
- 10.True or false: “labels on every icon” makes the app harder to use. (a) False (b) True
- 11.♿ Does this help everyone, or make the app harder to use: strong colour contrast? (a) helps everyone (b) makes it harder
- 12.True or false: “big touch targets” helps everyone use the app. (a) False (b) True
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13.♿ Our rule: text is at least 16 px. Which text on this screen is too small?
Footer: 12 px
Label: 25 px
Menu: 25 px
Caption: 20 px
Hint: 21 px (a) Caption (b) Menu (c) Footer (d) Label - 14.Which of these makes the app harder to use? (a) tiny tap areas (b) text that can grow (c) strong colour contrast (d) big touch targets
- 15.♿ Why add captions to videos? (a) so anyone can follow (b) to add colour (c) to hide the sound (d) to slow them down
- 16.♿ Does this help everyone, or make the app harder to use: captions on videos? (a) makes it harder (b) helps everyone
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17.♿ Our rule: text is at least 16 px. How many texts on this screen are too small?
Label: 16 px
Body text: 22 px
Hint: 23 px
Title: 13 px - 18.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) tiny tap areas (b) fast-flashing lights (c) icons with no labels (d) labels on every icon
- 19.♿ Does this help everyone, or make the app harder to use: labels on every icon? (a) makes it harder (b) helps everyone
- 20.♿ What does a screen reader do? (a) reads the screen aloud (b) makes text tiny (c) takes photos (d) plays music
- 21.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) tiny tap areas (b) captions on videos (c) sudden loud sounds (d) colour as the only clue
- 22.Which of these helps everyone use the app? (a) sudden loud sounds (b) fast-flashing lights (c) tiny tap areas (d) big touch targets
- 23.♿ Does this help everyone, or make the app harder to use: icons with no labels? (a) helps everyone (b) makes it harder
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24.♿ Our rule: text is at least 16 px. Which text on this screen is too small?
Footer: 26 px
Body text: 14 px
Menu: 21 px
Label: 22 px (a) Label (b) Menu (c) Footer (d) Body text - 25.True or false: “fast-flashing lights” makes the app harder to use. (a) True (b) False
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26.♿ Our rule: text is at least 16 px. Which text on this screen is too small?
Hint: 10 px
Title: 19 px
Label: 19 px
Body text: 27 px (a) Body text (b) Label (c) Title (d) Hint - 27.Which of these makes the app harder to use? (a) labels on every icon (b) text that can grow (c) captions on videos (d) colour as the only clue
- 28.♿ A screen has 12 icon buttons. Only 9 of them have a text label for screen readers. How many still need a label?
- 29.♿ A screen has 8 icon buttons. Only 4 of them have a text label for screen readers. How many still need a label?
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30.♿ Our rule: text is at least 16 px. How many texts on this screen are too small?
Caption: 22 px
Menu: 15 px
Body text: 19 px - 31.♿ A screen has 9 icon buttons. Only 1 of them have a text label for screen readers. How many still need a label?
- 32.♿ Does this help everyone, or make the app harder to use: big touch targets? (a) helps everyone (b) makes it harder
- 33.♿ A screen has 5 icon buttons. Only 3 of them have a text label for screen readers. How many still need a label?
- 34.True or false: “tiny tap areas” helps everyone use the app. (a) True (b) False
- 35.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) captions on videos (b) text that can grow (c) sudden loud sounds (d) labels on every icon
- 36.True or false: “sudden loud sounds” makes the app harder to use. (a) False (b) True
- 37.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) captions on videos (b) labels on every icon (c) colour as the only clue (d) text that can grow
- 38.♿ What should every icon-only button have for screen readers? (a) a bright colour (b) a long animation (c) a sound (d) a text label
- 39.Which of these makes the app harder to use? (a) text that can grow (b) sudden loud sounds (c) captions on videos (d) big touch targets
- 40.True or false: “strong colour contrast” makes the app harder to use. (a) True (b) False
Answer key
- text that can grow
- Title
- Label
- 7
- text that can grow
- Label
- True
- False
- True
- False
- helps everyone
- True
- Footer
- tiny tap areas
- so anyone can follow
- helps everyone
- 1
- labels on every icon
- helps everyone
- reads the screen aloud
- captions on videos
- big touch targets
- makes it harder
- Body text
- True
- Hint
- colour as the only clue
- 3
- 4
- 1
- 8
- helps everyone
- 2
- False
- sudden loud sounds
- True
- colour as the only clue
- a text label
- sudden loud sounds
- False
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