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 of these helps everyone use the app? (a) icons with no labels (b) labels on every icon (c) fast-flashing lights (d) tiny tap areas
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2.♿ Our rule: text is at least 16 px. Which text on this screen is too small?
Body text: 24 px
Menu: 28 px
Hint: 23 px
Title: 10 px (a) Body text (b) Menu (c) Hint (d) Title -
3.♿ Our rule: text is at least 16 px. How many texts on this screen are too small?
Label: 19 px
Body text: 16 px
Caption: 10 px
Title: 11 px
Hint: 11 px - 4.Which of these makes the app harder to use? (a) big touch targets (b) text that can grow (c) sudden loud sounds (d) labels on every icon
- 5.Which of these makes the app harder to use? (a) labels on every icon (b) strong colour contrast (c) text that can grow (d) colour as the only clue
- 6.♿ Why add captions to videos? (a) to add colour (b) so anyone can follow (c) to slow them down (d) to hide the sound
- 7.Which of these makes the app harder to use? (a) labels on every icon (b) fast-flashing lights (c) strong colour contrast (d) captions on videos
- 8.♿ Showing right or wrong only in red and green is a problem for ___. (a) fast typists (b) the battery (c) the server (d) colour-blind users
- 9.♿ A screen has 6 icon buttons. Only 5 of them have a text label for screen readers. How many still need a label?
- 10.True or false: “captions on videos” helps everyone use the app. (a) False (b) True
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11.♿ Our rule: text is at least 16 px. How many texts on this screen are too small?
Caption: 23 px
Body text: 19 px
Footer: 18 px
Menu: 16 px
Label: 17 px - 12.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) icons with no labels (b) text that can grow (c) tiny tap areas (d) sudden loud sounds
- 13.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) fast-flashing lights (b) icons with no labels (c) tiny tap areas (d) labels on every icon
- 14.♿ Does this help everyone, or make the app harder to use: captions on videos? (a) helps everyone (b) makes it harder
- 15.True or false: “labels on every icon” makes the app harder to use. (a) False (b) True
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16.♿ Our rule: text is at least 16 px. How many texts on this screen are too small?
Caption: 10 px
Title: 20 px
Body text: 14 px
Footer: 21 px
Hint: 23 px - 17.♿ A screen has 10 icon buttons. Only 1 of them have a text label for screen readers. How many still need a label?
- 18.♿ Does this help everyone, or make the app harder to use: labels on every icon? (a) makes it harder (b) helps everyone
- 19.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) labels on every icon (b) captions on videos (c) big touch targets (d) colour as the only clue
- 20.♿ What should every icon-only button have for screen readers? (a) a long animation (b) a text label (c) a sound (d) a bright colour
- 21.♿ A screen has 12 icon buttons. Only 6 of them have a text label for screen readers. How many still need a label?
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22.♿ Our rule: text is at least 16 px. How many texts on this screen are too small?
Title: 23 px
Label: 18 px
Body text: 22 px - 23.♿ Does this help everyone, or make the app harder to use: big touch targets? (a) makes it harder (b) helps everyone
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24.♿ Our rule: text is at least 16 px. How many texts on this screen are too small?
Title: 12 px
Caption: 12 px
Body text: 15 px - 25.True or false: “sudden loud sounds” helps everyone use the app. (a) False (b) True
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26.♿ Our rule: text is at least 16 px. How many texts on this screen are too small?
Label: 18 px
Hint: 16 px
Menu: 21 px
Caption: 11 px
Footer: 19 px - 27.True or false: “text that can grow” helps everyone use the app. (a) False (b) True
- 28.♿ Does this help everyone, or make the app harder to use: tiny tap areas? (a) makes it harder (b) helps everyone
- 29.Which of these makes the app harder to use? (a) text that can grow (b) captions on videos (c) icons with no labels (d) strong colour contrast
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30.♿ Our rule: text is at least 16 px. Which text on this screen is too small?
Hint: 13 px
Title: 28 px
Footer: 27 px (a) Hint (b) Footer (c) Title - 31.True or false: “icons with no labels” helps everyone use the app. (a) True (b) False
- 32.♿ Does this help everyone, or make the app harder to use: icons with no labels? (a) helps everyone (b) makes it harder
- 33.♿ What does a screen reader do? (a) reads the screen aloud (b) takes photos (c) plays music (d) makes text tiny
- 34.♿ Accessibility means an app works for ___. (a) nobody (b) only experts (c) everyone (d) only the coder
- 35.True or false: “big touch targets” makes the app harder to use. (a) True (b) False
- 36.True or false: “tiny tap areas” makes the app harder to use. (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?
Hint: 12 px
Body text: 11 px
Footer: 11 px
Menu: 21 px - 38.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) sudden loud sounds (b) big touch targets (c) tiny tap areas (d) fast-flashing lights
- 39.True or false: “big touch targets” helps everyone use the app. (a) True (b) False
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40.♿ Our rule: text is at least 16 px. Which text on this screen is too small?
Label: 28 px
Title: 9 px
Caption: 24 px
Body text: 25 px
Hint: 22 px (a) Label (b) Body text (c) Title (d) Caption
Answer key
- labels on every icon
- Title
- 3
- sudden loud sounds
- colour as the only clue
- so anyone can follow
- fast-flashing lights
- colour-blind users
- 1
- True
- 0
- text that can grow
- labels on every icon
- helps everyone
- False
- 2
- 9
- helps everyone
- colour as the only clue
- a text label
- 6
- 0
- helps everyone
- 3
- False
- 1
- True
- makes it harder
- icons with no labels
- Hint
- False
- makes it harder
- reads the screen aloud
- everyone
- False
- True
- 3
- big touch targets
- True
- Title
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