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