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: “big touch targets” makes the app harder to use. (a) False (b) True
- 2.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) big touch targets (b) captions on videos (c) colour as the only clue (d) labels on every icon
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3.♿ Our rule: text is at least 16 px. Which text on this screen is too small?
Body text: 17 px
Menu: 10 px
Footer: 19 px
Title: 18 px (a) Title (b) Footer (c) Menu (d) Body text - 4.True or false: “labels on every icon” helps everyone use the app. (a) False (b) True
- 5.True or false: “big touch targets” helps everyone use the app. (a) False (b) True
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6.♿ Our rule: text is at least 16 px. How many texts on this screen are too small?
Title: 20 px
Hint: 18 px
Label: 22 px
Footer: 18 px - 7.♿ What should every icon-only button have for screen readers? (a) a sound (b) a text label (c) a bright colour (d) a long animation
- 8.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) strong colour contrast (b) tiny tap areas (c) fast-flashing lights (d) sudden loud sounds
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9.♿ Our rule: text is at least 16 px. How many texts on this screen are too small?
Footer: 17 px
Body text: 23 px
Label: 21 px
Menu: 18 px
Hint: 15 px -
10.♿ Our rule: text is at least 16 px. Which text on this screen is too small?
Title: 28 px
Caption: 28 px
Label: 20 px
Footer: 10 px
Hint: 23 px (a) Caption (b) Label (c) Title (d) Footer -
11.♿ Our rule: text is at least 16 px. How many texts on this screen are too small?
Title: 13 px
Caption: 19 px
Label: 19 px - 12.♿ Does this help everyone, or make the app harder to use: tiny tap areas? (a) makes it harder (b) helps everyone
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13.♿ Our rule: text is at least 16 px. How many texts on this screen are too small?
Footer: 12 px
Title: 11 px
Caption: 11 px
Label: 18 px
Hint: 13 px - 14.♿ Does this help everyone, or make the app harder to use: big touch targets? (a) makes it harder (b) helps everyone
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15.♿ Our rule: text is at least 16 px. How many texts on this screen are too small?
Body text: 17 px
Caption: 23 px
Title: 12 px
Label: 21 px
Menu: 21 px - 16.True or false: “icons with no labels” helps everyone use the app. (a) False (b) True
- 17.♿ A screen has 9 icon buttons. Only 2 of them have a text label for screen readers. How many still need a label?
- 18.True or false: “fast-flashing lights” makes the app harder to use. (a) False (b) True
- 19.♿ Does this help everyone, or make the app harder to use: strong colour contrast? (a) makes it harder (b) helps everyone
- 20.Which of these makes the app harder to use? (a) colour as the only clue (b) text that can grow (c) labels on every icon (d) captions on videos
- 21.Which of these makes the app harder to use? (a) labels on every icon (b) strong colour contrast (c) fast-flashing lights (d) big touch targets
- 22.Which of these makes the app harder to use? (a) big touch targets (b) strong colour contrast (c) sudden loud sounds (d) labels on every icon
- 23.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) text that can grow (b) labels on every icon (c) captions on videos (d) icons with no labels
- 24.♿ A screen has 8 icon buttons. Only 7 of them have a text label for screen readers. How many still need a label?
- 25.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) icons with no labels (b) labels on every icon (c) tiny tap areas (d) sudden loud sounds
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26.♿ Our rule: text is at least 16 px. How many texts on this screen are too small?
Label: 12 px
Caption: 23 px
Body text: 14 px
Hint: 20 px -
27.♿ Our rule: text is at least 16 px. How many texts on this screen are too small?
Hint: 18 px
Body text: 14 px
Title: 18 px
Menu: 16 px - 28.♿ What does a screen reader do? (a) takes photos (b) makes text tiny (c) plays music (d) reads the screen aloud
- 29.♿ A screen has 11 icon buttons. Only 2 of them have a text label for screen readers. How many still need a label?
- 30.Which of these makes the app harder to use? (a) text that can grow (b) big touch targets (c) icons with no labels (d) labels on every icon
- 31.♿ Does this help everyone, or make the app harder to use: labels on every icon? (a) helps everyone (b) makes it harder
- 32.♿ Does this help everyone, or make the app harder to use: sudden loud sounds? (a) makes it harder (b) helps everyone
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33.♿ Our rule: text is at least 16 px. How many texts on this screen are too small?
Label: 12 px
Title: 13 px
Footer: 10 px
Body text: 21 px - 34.♿ A screen has 10 icon buttons. Only 6 of them have a text label for screen readers. How many still need a label?
- 35.♿ Showing right or wrong only in red and green is a problem for ___. (a) the battery (b) colour-blind users (c) the server (d) fast typists
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36.♿ Our rule: text is at least 16 px. Which text on this screen is too small?
Hint: 14 px
Title: 26 px
Label: 18 px (a) Label (b) Hint (c) Title -
37.♿ Our rule: text is at least 16 px. Which text on this screen is too small?
Hint: 10 px
Label: 24 px
Footer: 20 px
Menu: 17 px (a) Label (b) Menu (c) Hint (d) Footer - 38.♿ Does this help everyone, or make the app harder to use: captions on videos? (a) helps everyone (b) makes it harder
- 39.♿ Does this help everyone, or make the app harder to use: text that can grow? (a) helps everyone (b) makes it harder
- 40.True or false: “colour as the only clue” makes the app harder to use. (a) False (b) True
Answer key
- False
- colour as the only clue
- Menu
- True
- True
- 0
- a text label
- strong colour contrast
- 1
- Footer
- 1
- makes it harder
- 4
- helps everyone
- 1
- False
- 7
- True
- helps everyone
- colour as the only clue
- fast-flashing lights
- sudden loud sounds
- icons with no labels
- 1
- labels on every icon
- 2
- 1
- reads the screen aloud
- 9
- icons with no labels
- helps everyone
- makes it harder
- 3
- 4
- colour-blind users
- Hint
- Hint
- helps everyone
- helps everyone
- True
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