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: big touch targets? (a) makes it harder (b) helps everyone
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2.♿ Our rule: text is at least 16 px. Which text on this screen is too small?
Label: 24 px
Footer: 25 px
Hint: 9 px (a) Label (b) Footer (c) Hint - 3.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) strong colour contrast (b) colour as the only clue (c) icons with no labels (d) tiny tap areas
- 4.♿ Does this help everyone, or make the app harder to use: icons with no labels? (a) helps everyone (b) makes it harder
- 5.Which of these makes the app harder to use? (a) tiny tap areas (b) labels on every icon (c) strong colour contrast (d) captions on videos
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6.♿ Our rule: text is at least 16 px. Which text on this screen is too small?
Hint: 25 px
Footer: 20 px
Menu: 13 px (a) Hint (b) Menu (c) Footer - 7.True or false: “strong colour contrast” helps everyone use the app. (a) False (b) True
- 8.Which of these helps everyone use the app? (a) colour as the only clue (b) tiny tap areas (c) icons with no labels (d) labels on every icon
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9.♿ Our rule: text is at least 16 px. Which text on this screen is too small?
Body text: 18 px
Caption: 10 px
Hint: 28 px
Menu: 17 px
Title: 16 px (a) Menu (b) Body text (c) Hint (d) Caption - 10.♿ A screen has 11 icon buttons. Only 1 of them have a text label for screen readers. How many still need a label?
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11.♿ Our rule: text is at least 16 px. Which text on this screen is too small?
Hint: 18 px
Body text: 17 px
Label: 28 px
Menu: 14 px (a) Hint (b) Menu (c) Body text (d) Label - 12.♿ Why add captions to videos? (a) to hide the sound (b) to slow them down (c) so anyone can follow (d) to add colour
- 13.♿ A screen has 11 icon buttons. Only 6 of them have a text label for screen readers. How many still need a label?
- 14.♿ Showing right or wrong only in red and green is a problem for ___. (a) fast typists (b) the battery (c) colour-blind users (d) the server
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15.♿ Our rule: text is at least 16 px. How many texts on this screen are too small?
Menu: 14 px
Body text: 19 px
Title: 13 px
Footer: 19 px - 16.♿ 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
- 17.Which of these helps everyone use the app? (a) sudden loud sounds (b) tiny tap areas (c) colour as the only clue (d) big touch targets
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18.♿ Our rule: text is at least 16 px. Which text on this screen is too small?
Footer: 28 px
Hint: 23 px
Label: 12 px (a) Hint (b) Footer (c) Label - 19.♿ What does a screen reader do? (a) reads the screen aloud (b) takes photos (c) plays music (d) makes text tiny
- 20.♿ Does this help everyone, or make the app harder to use: sudden loud sounds? (a) helps everyone (b) makes it harder
- 21.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) text that can grow (b) captions on videos (c) big touch targets (d) sudden loud sounds
- 22.♿ Does this help everyone, or make the app harder to use: fast-flashing lights? (a) helps everyone (b) makes it harder
- 23.True or false: “big touch targets” makes the app harder to use. (a) False (b) True
- 24.True or false: “tiny tap areas” makes the app harder to use. (a) True (b) False
- 25.True or false: “colour as the only clue” makes the app harder to use. (a) False (b) True
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26.♿ Our rule: text is at least 16 px. How many texts on this screen are too small?
Caption: 24 px
Title: 22 px
Menu: 11 px
Hint: 13 px
Body text: 13 px - 27.♿ A screen has 12 icon buttons. Only 6 of them have a text label for screen readers. How many still need a label?
- 28.♿ Does this help everyone, or make the app harder to use: captions on videos? (a) makes it harder (b) helps everyone
- 29.Which of these makes the app harder to use? (a) captions on videos (b) labels on every icon (c) text that can grow (d) sudden loud sounds
- 30.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) labels on every icon (b) sudden loud sounds (c) colour as the only clue (d) icons with no labels
- 31.♿ A screen has 7 icon buttons. Only 4 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?
Label: 13 px
Footer: 27 px
Title: 21 px (a) Title (b) Label (c) Footer -
33.♿ Our rule: text is at least 16 px. Which text on this screen is too small?
Hint: 17 px
Label: 21 px
Menu: 12 px
Footer: 28 px
Title: 27 px (a) Menu (b) Footer (c) Label (d) Hint - 34.True or false: “sudden loud sounds” helps everyone use the app. (a) False (b) True
- 35.♿ Does this help everyone, or make the app harder to use: strong colour contrast? (a) makes it harder (b) helps everyone
- 36.True or false: “text that can grow” makes the app harder to use. (a) True (b) False
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37.♿ Our rule: text is at least 16 px. How many texts on this screen are too small?
Menu: 14 px
Body text: 24 px
Title: 17 px
Footer: 12 px
Hint: 12 px - 38.True or false: “captions on videos” makes the app harder to use. (a) True (b) False
- 39.True or false: “colour as the only clue” helps everyone use the app. (a) True (b) False
- 40.♿ A screen has 6 icon buttons. Only 1 of them have a text label for screen readers. How many still need a label?
Answer key
- helps everyone
- Hint
- strong colour contrast
- makes it harder
- tiny tap areas
- Menu
- True
- labels on every icon
- Caption
- 10
- Menu
- so anyone can follow
- 5
- colour-blind users
- 2
- a text label
- big touch targets
- Label
- reads the screen aloud
- makes it harder
- sudden loud sounds
- makes it harder
- False
- True
- True
- 3
- 6
- helps everyone
- sudden loud sounds
- labels on every icon
- 3
- Label
- Menu
- False
- helps everyone
- False
- 3
- False
- False
- 5
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