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