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.♿ Does this help everyone, or make the app harder to use: colour as the only clue? (a) helps everyone (b) makes it harder
- 2.♿ Does this help everyone, or make the app harder to use: captions on videos? (a) helps everyone (b) makes it harder
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3.♿ Our rule: text is at least 16 px. Which text on this screen is too small?
Hint: 12 px
Menu: 16 px
Title: 20 px
Caption: 28 px
Footer: 23 px (a) Menu (b) Caption (c) Title (d) Hint - 4.♿ Does this help everyone, or make the app harder to use: tiny tap areas? (a) helps everyone (b) makes it harder
- 5.Which of these makes the app harder to use? (a) text that can grow (b) labels on every icon (c) tiny tap areas (d) strong colour contrast
- 6.♿ A screen has 9 icon buttons. Only 4 of them have a text label for screen readers. How many still need a label?
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7.♿ Our rule: text is at least 16 px. How many texts on this screen are too small?
Title: 10 px
Menu: 10 px
Caption: 20 px
Hint: 19 px - 8.♿ Does this help everyone, or make the app harder to use: icons with no labels? (a) helps everyone (b) makes it harder
- 9.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) tiny tap areas (b) text that can grow (c) strong colour contrast (d) captions on videos
- 10.Which of these helps everyone use the app? (a) text that can grow (b) tiny tap areas (c) sudden loud sounds (d) colour as the only clue
- 11.♿ Why add captions to videos? (a) to slow them down (b) so anyone can follow (c) to add colour (d) to hide the sound
- 12.♿ A screen has 6 icon buttons. Only 4 of them have a text label for screen readers. How many still need a label?
- 13.♿ A screen has 5 icon buttons. Only 4 of them have a text label for screen readers. How many still need a label?
- 14.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) captions on videos (b) labels on every icon (c) text that can grow (d) fast-flashing lights
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15.♿ Our rule: text is at least 16 px. How many texts on this screen are too small?
Hint: 10 px
Menu: 13 px
Body text: 14 px
Footer: 22 px
Label: 17 px - 16.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) fast-flashing lights (b) tiny tap areas (c) icons with no labels (d) text that can grow
- 17.♿ Accessibility means an app works for ___. (a) only experts (b) only the coder (c) everyone (d) nobody
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18.♿ Our rule: text is at least 16 px. How many texts on this screen are too small?
Body text: 15 px
Footer: 14 px
Label: 18 px
Title: 20 px
Menu: 17 px - 19.♿ A screen has 9 icon buttons. Only 7 of them have a text label for screen readers. How many still need a label?
- 20.♿ Does this help everyone, or make the app harder to use: big touch targets? (a) makes it harder (b) helps everyone
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21.♿ Our rule: text is at least 16 px. How many texts on this screen are too small?
Footer: 14 px
Body text: 20 px
Hint: 12 px
Menu: 16 px - 22.♿ Showing right or wrong only in red and green is a problem for ___. (a) the server (b) colour-blind users (c) the battery (d) fast typists
- 23.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) captions on videos (b) strong colour contrast (c) text that can grow (d) sudden loud sounds
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24.♿ Our rule: text is at least 16 px. Which text on this screen is too small?
Label: 11 px
Body text: 23 px
Menu: 23 px
Footer: 16 px
Title: 22 px (a) Body text (b) Footer (c) Label (d) Menu - 25.Which of these makes the app harder to use? (a) captions on videos (b) labels on every icon (c) colour as the only clue (d) text that can grow
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26.♿ Our rule: text is at least 16 px. Which text on this screen is too small?
Caption: 16 px
Body text: 12 px
Hint: 26 px
Title: 18 px
Label: 28 px (a) Body text (b) Hint (c) Title (d) Caption - 27.Which of these helps everyone use the app? (a) labels on every icon (b) fast-flashing lights (c) tiny tap areas (d) sudden loud sounds
- 28.True or false: “colour as the only clue” makes the app harder to use. (a) True (b) False
- 29.Which of these helps everyone use the app? (a) colour as the only clue (b) strong colour contrast (c) fast-flashing lights (d) tiny tap areas
- 30.♿ A screen has 5 icon buttons. Only 1 of them have a text label for screen readers. How many still need a label?
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31.♿ Our rule: text is at least 16 px. Which text on this screen is too small?
Footer: 13 px
Title: 18 px
Hint: 18 px (a) Title (b) Hint (c) Footer -
32.♿ Our rule: text is at least 16 px. Which text on this screen is too small?
Body text: 27 px
Title: 25 px
Hint: 23 px
Caption: 25 px
Footer: 14 px (a) Body text (b) Title (c) Hint (d) Footer - 33.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) tiny tap areas (b) captions on videos (c) icons with no labels (d) fast-flashing lights
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34.♿ Our rule: text is at least 16 px. How many texts on this screen are too small?
Hint: 21 px
Label: 20 px
Caption: 13 px
Footer: 10 px
Body text: 19 px - 35.♿ What does a screen reader do? (a) makes text tiny (b) plays music (c) reads the screen aloud (d) takes photos
- 36.True or false: “strong colour contrast” helps everyone use the app. (a) True (b) False
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37.♿ Our rule: text is at least 16 px. How many texts on this screen are too small?
Title: 18 px
Hint: 22 px
Label: 13 px
Menu: 22 px
Body text: 23 px - 38.True or false: “icons with no labels” helps everyone use the app. (a) True (b) False
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39.♿ Our rule: text is at least 16 px. Which text on this screen is too small?
Hint: 22 px
Title: 25 px
Caption: 12 px (a) Title (b) Caption (c) Hint -
40.♿ Our rule: text is at least 16 px. Which text on this screen is too small?
Title: 28 px
Hint: 27 px
Caption: 26 px
Label: 16 px
Body text: 13 px (a) Caption (b) Hint (c) Body text (d) Title
Answer key
- makes it harder
- helps everyone
- Hint
- makes it harder
- tiny tap areas
- 5
- 2
- makes it harder
- tiny tap areas
- text that can grow
- so anyone can follow
- 2
- 1
- fast-flashing lights
- 3
- text that can grow
- everyone
- 2
- 2
- helps everyone
- 2
- colour-blind users
- sudden loud sounds
- Label
- colour as the only clue
- Body text
- labels on every icon
- True
- strong colour contrast
- 4
- Footer
- Footer
- captions on videos
- 2
- reads the screen aloud
- True
- 1
- False
- Caption
- Body text
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