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