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