Universal Design, Accessibility, and Special Populations Quiz :Prototyping and Design (User Interface Design Specialization) Answes 2026

Question 1

Lesson from curb cuts and closed captioning:

• ✅ That universal design can benefit a broader population of users who may experience “temporary limitations” in particular use contexts.

• ❌ Designing for users with disabilities is always hard and expensive

• ❌ Universal design is basically impossible

• ❌ Well-intended designs usually have negative consequences

Explanation:
Curb cuts help parents with strollers, travelers with luggage, and delivery workers. Closed captions help people in noisy environments or learning a language. Designing for accessibility benefits everyone.

Question 2

Best way to address color blindness:

• ✅ Use color only as a redundant display of information, not as a primary way of displaying it.

• ❌ Avoid all uses of color

• ❌ Use only red and green

• ❌ Ensure uniform brightness only

Explanation:
Information should never rely on color alone—use labels, shapes, icons, or patterns as backups.

Question 3

Challenges with screen readers:

• ✅ Screen readers understand underlying structure, not visual proximity.

• ❌ Screen readers don’t work with standard tools

• ❌ Screen readers don’t exist

• ❌ Making interfaces accessible ruins visual design

Explanation:
Screen readers rely on semantic structure (headings, labels, order), not how things look on the screen.

Question 4

Designing for users with ADHD (best answer):

• ❌ Pop-up reminders to pay attention

• ❌ Blinking fields and forced navigation

• ✅ Avoid dense content, use clear grouping and labeling, and show status at all times.

• ❌ Avoid structured interactions

Explanation:
Clear structure, reduced clutter, and visible progress reduce cognitive overload.

Question 5

Design features that help users with motor limitations:

• ✅ Avoid short timeouts

• ✅ Keyboard-based interaction support

• ✅ Large, highlighted targets

• ✅ All of the above

Explanation:
Motor limitations affect speed, accuracy, and endurance—good interfaces reduce precision and time pressure.

Question 6

Which accessibility feature is NOT real?

• ❌ iPhone usable by blind users via audio (real)

• ❌ Sticky keys in Windows (real)

• ✅ Android auto-simplifies text to a 6th-grade reading level

• ❌ Web standards for alt text and captions (real)

Explanation:
Android does not automatically rewrite content for literacy or ADHD.

Question 7

Most appropriate way to refer to older adults:

• ❌ Always use exact age

• ❌ “Venerated elders”

• ✅ Ask how they prefer to be referenced and follow that preference.

• ❌ Always say “older adults”

Explanation:
Respectful design means letting people define how they are described.

Question 8

Correct order of Piaget’s stages:

• ❌ Preoperational → Concrete → Sensorimotor → Formal

• ✅ Sensorimotor → Preoperational → Concrete Operational → Formal Operational

• ❌ Prelatent → Latent → Concrete → Abstract

• ❌ Prenatal → Postnatal → School Age → Teenager

Explanation:
This is the standard developmental sequence in cognitive psychology.

Question 9

Designing for children improves accessibility by considering: (Select all that apply)

• ✅ Limited literacy

• ✅ Need for engagement and fun

• ✅ Limited motor abilities

• ❌ Limited hearing

Explanation:
Children’s design emphasizes clarity, simplicity, and interaction, which benefits all users.

Question 10

True statement about designing for broad socioeconomic differences:

• ❌ Only test on developer devices

• ❌ Geography doesn’t matter

• ✅ Make sure your UI works well on both expensive and cheap devices.

• ❌ It’s not important to design for broad populations

Explanation:
Device quality, connectivity, and context vary widely—inclusive design must account for this.

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