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