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 helps everyone use the app? (a) sudden loud sounds (b) fast-flashing lights (c) strong colour contrast (d) icons with no labels
- 2.♿ Does this help everyone, or make the app harder to use: tiny tap areas? (a) helps everyone (b) makes it harder
- 3.♿ A screen has 8 icon buttons. Only 7 of them have a text label for screen readers. How many still need a label?
- 4.Which of these makes the app harder to use? (a) icons with no labels (b) big touch targets (c) labels on every icon (d) captions on videos
- 5.Which of these helps everyone use the app? (a) labels on every icon (b) fast-flashing lights (c) tiny tap areas (d) colour as the only clue
- 6.♿ Does this help everyone, or make the app harder to use: icons with no labels? (a) helps everyone (b) makes it harder
- 7.True or false: “big touch targets” makes the app harder to use. (a) False (b) True
- 8.Which of these makes the app harder to use? (a) big touch targets (b) fast-flashing lights (c) labels on every icon (d) captions on videos
- 9.Which of these makes the app harder to use? (a) text that can grow (b) captions on videos (c) labels on every icon (d) colour as the only clue
- 10.♿ 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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11.♿ Our rule: text is at least 16 px. Which text on this screen is too small?
Body text: 24 px
Title: 23 px
Caption: 24 px
Label: 20 px
Menu: 9 px (a) Body text (b) Caption (c) Title (d) Menu - 12.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) fast-flashing lights (b) sudden loud sounds (c) icons with no labels (d) text that can grow
- 13.♿ A screen has 8 icon buttons. Only 2 of them have a text label for screen readers. How many still need a label?
- 14.Which of these makes the app harder to use? (a) text that can grow (b) captions on videos (c) tiny tap areas (d) labels on every icon
- 15.Which of these makes the app harder to use? (a) labels on every icon (b) strong colour contrast (c) text that can grow (d) sudden loud sounds
- 16.True or false: “strong colour contrast” helps everyone use the app. (a) True (b) False
- 17.♿ What does a screen reader do? (a) takes photos (b) plays music (c) reads the screen aloud (d) makes text tiny
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18.♿ Our rule: text is at least 16 px. How many texts on this screen are too small?
Caption: 18 px
Label: 23 px
Body text: 20 px -
19.♿ Our rule: text is at least 16 px. Which text on this screen is too small?
Body text: 26 px
Title: 21 px
Hint: 12 px
Footer: 27 px (a) Hint (b) Title (c) Body text (d) Footer - 20.True or false: “sudden loud sounds” makes the app harder to use. (a) True (b) False
- 21.♿ Showing right or wrong only in red and green is a problem for ___. (a) the server (b) the battery (c) fast typists (d) colour-blind users
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22.♿ Our rule: text is at least 16 px. How many texts on this screen are too small?
Footer: 19 px
Caption: 19 px
Body text: 24 px
Menu: 19 px
Hint: 21 px - 23.True or false: “tiny tap areas” makes the app harder to use. (a) False (b) True
- 24.♿ Does this help everyone, or make the app harder to use: strong colour contrast? (a) makes it harder (b) helps everyone
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25.♿ Our rule: text is at least 16 px. Which text on this screen is too small?
Title: 25 px
Body text: 10 px
Menu: 24 px (a) Title (b) Body text (c) Menu - 26.True or false: “icons with no labels” makes the app harder to use. (a) True (b) False
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27.♿ Our rule: text is at least 16 px. Which text on this screen is too small?
Caption: 24 px
Title: 12 px
Menu: 18 px (a) Menu (b) Caption (c) Title - 28.True or false: “fast-flashing lights” makes the app harder to use. (a) False (b) True
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29.♿ Our rule: text is at least 16 px. How many texts on this screen are too small?
Body text: 15 px
Caption: 23 px
Menu: 16 px
Hint: 18 px -
30.♿ Our rule: text is at least 16 px. Which text on this screen is too small?
Body text: 18 px
Title: 9 px
Footer: 24 px (a) Body text (b) Title (c) Footer - 31.♿ A screen has 6 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: text that can grow? (a) helps everyone (b) makes it harder
- 33.True or false: “colour as the only clue” helps everyone use the app. (a) False (b) True
- 34.♿ A screen has 11 icon buttons. Only 10 of them have a text label for screen readers. How many still need a label?
- 35.♿ Does this help everyone, or make the app harder to use: big touch targets? (a) makes it harder (b) helps everyone
- 36.True or false: “colour as the only clue” makes the app harder to use. (a) False (b) True
- 37.True or false: “big touch targets” helps everyone use the app. (a) True (b) False
- 38.♿ Why add captions to videos? (a) to add colour (b) to hide the sound (c) so anyone can follow (d) to slow them down
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39.♿ Our rule: text is at least 16 px. How many texts on this screen are too small?
Body text: 20 px
Footer: 17 px
Title: 18 px
Caption: 15 px - 40.♿ A screen has 10 icon buttons. Only 1 of them have a text label for screen readers. How many still need a label?
Answer key
- strong colour contrast
- makes it harder
- 1
- icons with no labels
- labels on every icon
- makes it harder
- False
- fast-flashing lights
- colour as the only clue
- helps everyone
- Menu
- text that can grow
- 6
- tiny tap areas
- sudden loud sounds
- True
- reads the screen aloud
- 0
- Hint
- True
- colour-blind users
- 0
- True
- helps everyone
- Body text
- True
- Title
- True
- 1
- Title
- 5
- helps everyone
- False
- 1
- helps everyone
- True
- True
- so anyone can follow
- 1
- 9
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