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