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