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