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