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