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