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