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