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