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