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