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