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