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