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