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) big touch targets (b) labels on every icon (c) text that can grow (d) sudden loud sounds
- 2.♿ Does this help everyone, or make the app harder to use: strong colour contrast? (a) helps everyone (b) makes it harder
- 3.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) text that can grow (b) big touch targets (c) labels on every icon (d) colour as the only clue
- 4.True or false: “captions on videos” helps everyone use the app. (a) False (b) True
- 5.♿ Showing right or wrong only in red and green is a problem for ___. (a) the server (b) fast typists (c) colour-blind users (d) the battery
- 6.True or false: “labels on every icon” helps everyone use the app. (a) True (b) False
- 7.♿ 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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8.♿ Our rule: text is at least 16 px. Which text on this screen is too small?
Caption: 10 px
Footer: 16 px
Title: 25 px (a) Caption (b) Title (c) Footer -
9.♿ Our rule: text is at least 16 px. Which text on this screen is too small?
Caption: 24 px
Label: 19 px
Body text: 10 px
Hint: 21 px (a) Hint (b) Label (c) Body text (d) Caption - 10.True or false: “sudden loud sounds” helps everyone use the app. (a) True (b) False
- 11.♿ Why add captions to videos? (a) so anyone can follow (b) to slow them down (c) to add colour (d) to hide the sound
- 12.♿ Accessibility means an app works for ___. (a) nobody (b) everyone (c) only the coder (d) only experts
- 13.♿ Does this help everyone, or make the app harder to use: text that can grow? (a) makes it harder (b) helps everyone
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14.♿ Our rule: text is at least 16 px. Which text on this screen is too small?
Caption: 18 px
Label: 10 px
Hint: 23 px (a) Caption (b) Label (c) Hint - 15.♿ Does this help everyone, or make the app harder to use: fast-flashing lights? (a) makes it harder (b) helps everyone
- 16.♿ Does this help everyone, or make the app harder to use: icons with no labels? (a) helps everyone (b) makes it harder
- 17.♿ A screen has 5 icon buttons. Only 2 of them have a text label for screen readers. How many still need a label?
- 18.♿ What does a screen reader do? (a) plays music (b) takes photos (c) reads the screen aloud (d) makes text tiny
- 19.True or false: “big touch targets” helps everyone use the app. (a) True (b) False
- 20.Which of these helps everyone use the app? (a) colour as the only clue (b) icons with no labels (c) sudden loud sounds (d) text that can grow
- 21.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) tiny tap areas (b) icons with no labels (c) colour as the only clue (d) captions on videos
- 22.♿ Does this help everyone, or make the app harder to use: sudden loud sounds? (a) makes it harder (b) helps everyone
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23.♿ Our rule: text is at least 16 px. How many texts on this screen are too small?
Menu: 18 px
Label: 17 px
Caption: 16 px
Hint: 15 px
Title: 16 px - 24.Which of these makes the app harder to use? (a) text that can grow (b) strong colour contrast (c) captions on videos (d) colour as the only clue
- 25.♿ 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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26.♿ Our rule: text is at least 16 px. How many texts on this screen are too small?
Footer: 24 px
Body text: 20 px
Hint: 24 px -
27.♿ Our rule: text is at least 16 px. Which text on this screen is too small?
Caption: 16 px
Body text: 26 px
Title: 28 px
Hint: 9 px
Label: 21 px (a) Title (b) Hint (c) Caption (d) Body text -
28.♿ Our rule: text is at least 16 px. How many texts on this screen are too small?
Hint: 22 px
Caption: 17 px
Title: 10 px - 29.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) icons with no labels (b) labels on every icon (c) text that can grow (d) big touch targets
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30.♿ Our rule: text is at least 16 px. How many texts on this screen are too small?
Caption: 22 px
Label: 12 px
Title: 12 px - 31.True or false: “text that can grow” makes the app harder to use. (a) False (b) True
- 32.True or false: “fast-flashing lights” makes the app harder to use. (a) False (b) True
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33.♿ Our rule: text is at least 16 px. Which text on this screen is too small?
Label: 16 px
Caption: 27 px
Body text: 14 px (a) Caption (b) Body text (c) Label -
34.♿ Our rule: text is at least 16 px. Which text on this screen is too small?
Label: 25 px
Hint: 16 px
Footer: 9 px
Menu: 25 px (a) Hint (b) Label (c) Menu (d) Footer -
35.♿ Our rule: text is at least 16 px. Which text on this screen is too small?
Hint: 13 px
Menu: 20 px
Body text: 18 px
Title: 16 px (a) Menu (b) Body text (c) Hint (d) Title -
36.♿ Our rule: text is at least 16 px. How many texts on this screen are too small?
Hint: 12 px
Caption: 13 px
Body text: 20 px
Footer: 12 px
Title: 17 px - 37.True or false: “tiny tap areas” helps everyone use the app. (a) True (b) False
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38.♿ Our rule: text is at least 16 px. Which text on this screen is too small?
Hint: 12 px
Label: 22 px
Title: 21 px (a) Title (b) Hint (c) Label - 39.♿ A screen has 8 icon buttons. Only 6 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. Which text on this screen is too small?
Label: 20 px
Title: 26 px
Caption: 11 px (a) Caption (b) Label (c) Title
Answer key
- sudden loud sounds
- helps everyone
- colour as the only clue
- True
- colour-blind users
- True
- makes it harder
- Caption
- Body text
- False
- so anyone can follow
- everyone
- helps everyone
- Label
- makes it harder
- makes it harder
- 3
- reads the screen aloud
- True
- text that can grow
- captions on videos
- makes it harder
- 1
- colour as the only clue
- helps everyone
- 0
- Hint
- 1
- icons with no labels
- 2
- False
- True
- Body text
- Footer
- Hint
- 3
- False
- Hint
- 2
- Caption
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