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