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