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) text that can grow (b) captions on videos (c) fast-flashing lights (d) labels on every icon
- 2.♿ Does this help everyone, or make the app harder to use: big touch targets? (a) makes it harder (b) helps everyone
- 3.True or false: “captions on videos” helps everyone use the app. (a) False (b) True
- 4.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) text that can grow (b) tiny tap areas (c) big touch targets (d) captions on videos
- 5.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) strong colour contrast (b) sudden loud sounds (c) captions on videos (d) text that can grow
- 6.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) fast-flashing lights (b) labels on every icon (c) tiny tap areas (d) colour as the only clue
- 7.True or false: “labels on every icon” helps everyone use the app. (a) False (b) True
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8.♿ Our rule: text is at least 16 px. How many texts on this screen are too small?
Body text: 23 px
Caption: 14 px
Menu: 14 px - 9.Which of these makes the app harder to use? (a) big touch targets (b) colour as the only clue (c) captions on videos (d) labels on every icon
- 10.♿ A screen has 12 icon buttons. Only 7 of them have a text label for screen readers. How many still need a label?
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11.♿ Our rule: text is at least 16 px. How many texts on this screen are too small?
Hint: 16 px
Footer: 18 px
Menu: 23 px -
12.♿ Our rule: text is at least 16 px. Which text on this screen is too small?
Caption: 19 px
Title: 26 px
Body text: 23 px
Menu: 9 px
Hint: 25 px (a) Caption (b) Title (c) Body text (d) Menu -
13.♿ Our rule: text is at least 16 px. Which text on this screen is too small?
Hint: 16 px
Footer: 14 px
Body text: 21 px
Menu: 16 px
Title: 22 px (a) Menu (b) Body text (c) Footer (d) Hint - 14.♿ Does this help everyone, or make the app harder to use: labels on every icon? (a) helps everyone (b) makes it harder
- 15.True or false: “strong colour contrast” makes the app harder to use. (a) True (b) False
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16.♿ Our rule: text is at least 16 px. How many texts on this screen are too small?
Label: 10 px
Hint: 19 px
Menu: 19 px
Footer: 14 px - 17.♿ Showing right or wrong only in red and green is a problem for ___. (a) fast typists (b) the battery (c) the server (d) colour-blind users
- 18.True or false: “icons with no labels” helps everyone use the app. (a) True (b) False
- 19.♿ A screen has 11 icon buttons. Only 2 of them have a text label for screen readers. How many still need a label?
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20.♿ Our rule: text is at least 16 px. How many texts on this screen are too small?
Title: 20 px
Body text: 18 px
Label: 11 px
Caption: 15 px
Menu: 10 px - 21.♿ A screen has 5 icon buttons. Only 3 of them have a text label for screen readers. How many still need a label?
- 22.♿ Accessibility means an app works for ___. (a) everyone (b) only experts (c) only the coder (d) nobody
- 23.♿ Why add captions to videos? (a) so anyone can follow (b) to slow them down (c) to add colour (d) to hide the sound
- 24.True or false: “tiny tap areas” helps everyone use the app. (a) False (b) True
- 25.♿ 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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26.♿ Our rule: text is at least 16 px. How many texts on this screen are too small?
Title: 21 px
Body text: 12 px
Hint: 22 px - 27.♿ A screen has 9 icon buttons. Only 8 of them have a text label for screen readers. How many still need a label?
- 28.True or false: “text that can grow” helps everyone use the app. (a) False (b) True
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29.♿ Our rule: text is at least 16 px. Which text on this screen is too small?
Body text: 23 px
Caption: 12 px
Hint: 22 px
Title: 26 px (a) Hint (b) Caption (c) Title (d) Body text - 30.True or false: “captions on videos” makes the app harder to use. (a) False (b) True
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31.♿ Our rule: text is at least 16 px. Which text on this screen is too small?
Body text: 19 px
Label: 22 px
Title: 11 px
Menu: 20 px
Hint: 18 px (a) Menu (b) Body text (c) Title (d) Label - 32.True or false: “tiny tap areas” makes the app harder to use. (a) False (b) True
- 33.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) strong colour contrast (b) labels on every icon (c) icons with no labels (d) text that can grow
- 34.♿ Does this help everyone, or make the app harder to use: sudden loud sounds? (a) helps everyone (b) makes it harder
- 35.♿ A screen has 12 icon buttons. Only 9 of them have a text label for screen readers. How many still need a label?
- 36.True or false: “fast-flashing lights” helps everyone use the app. (a) False (b) True
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37.♿ Our rule: text is at least 16 px. Which text on this screen is too small?
Hint: 22 px
Body text: 13 px
Footer: 21 px (a) Body text (b) Footer (c) Hint - 38.♿ What does a screen reader do? (a) reads the screen aloud (b) plays music (c) makes text tiny (d) takes photos
- 39.Which of these helps everyone use the app? (a) tiny tap areas (b) icons with no labels (c) fast-flashing lights (d) text that can grow
- 40.♿ What should every icon-only button have for screen readers? (a) a long animation (b) a bright colour (c) a sound (d) a text label
Answer key
- fast-flashing lights
- helps everyone
- True
- tiny tap areas
- sudden loud sounds
- labels on every icon
- True
- 2
- colour as the only clue
- 5
- 0
- Menu
- Footer
- helps everyone
- False
- 2
- colour-blind users
- False
- 9
- 3
- 2
- everyone
- so anyone can follow
- False
- helps everyone
- 1
- 1
- True
- Caption
- False
- Title
- True
- icons with no labels
- makes it harder
- 3
- False
- Body text
- reads the screen aloud
- text that can grow
- a text label
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