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