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