Kid view and accessibility

Help · Updated 12 September 2026

Kid view is the same day as the parent's screen, sized and worded for the person actually tapping it. Two settings alongside it are there for children who need the day broken down further.

Kid view

Tap 🧒 Kid view on the Daily tab and hand the phone over. What changes: emoji come first and large, every target is well past the minimum comfortable tap size, progress is shown as filled dots rather than arithmetic, and every grown-up control is gone: no editing, no settings, no win journal written about them.

Your child can also see what they're working toward: the streak they're keeping and the next reward with the points still to go. They can't claim anything. That stays with a grown-up.

Leaving Kid view always needs a grown-up

"👋 Done, back to grown-ups" asks for the grown-up PIN. If no PIN has been set, it asks for the family account password instead. You can set a shorter PIN in Menu → Account settings. The PIN is a speed bump for a shared phone rather than hard security; the password fallback is checked against the signed-in account.

It changes with their age

The screen a four-year-old gets and the screen a twelve-year-old gets aren't the same. Under six, emoji lead and are large, and progress is dots you can count rather than a number to read. From school age, the words lead at a readable size, points show against the day's goal as a real figure, and a strip of their own last seven days appears at the foot.

It follows the age band you set for each child during setup, and you can change it any time in Household → Add or edit people and pets. Nothing is taken away from the older screen. The big tap targets stay, because those are good design at any age.

One thing at a time

Menu → Account settings → Focus & sensory → One thing at a time. Kid view shows only the current step, large, with a quiet "then…" preview of what's next. The whole day still appears as a row of pictures along the top, so nothing is a surprise. Knowing what's coming and how much is left is the point of a visual schedule, and a scrolling list of checkboxes shows neither.

"First this, then that" is an everyday tool in a lot of ADHD and autistic households, and this is that, on a phone. Steps always stay in the order you put them in (never re-sorted, never shuffled) because predictability is the whole value.

Calm mode

Same section. Calm mode turns off the confetti and softens the celebration wording throughout: "All done" instead of "You did it! 🎉", a 🌱 instead of a 🔥 on the streak. Pair it with the free 🍃 Calm theme in Menu → Appearance for a low-stimulation screen everywhere, not just in Kid view.

Contrast and readability

Every theme KinHuddle ships is checked against WCAG AAA contrast (7:1) for body text as part of the test suite, so a theme cannot ship that reads poorly. If you find text that's hard to read anywhere in the app, that's a bug and we'd like to hear about it.

Screen readers and keyboards

Tasks in Kid view are real buttons with a pressed state, each labelled with its name and whether it's done or waiting on a grown-up. The schedule strip is a labelled list: "Step 2: Read 20 minutes, now". The app is keyboard-navigable throughout and honours your system's reduced-motion setting.

Per child, not per family

Both settings have a family default and a per-child override. If one child needs one step at a time and their sibling would rather see the whole list, you can have both: set the family default however suits most of the house, then change the one child who differs.

In Menu → Account settings → Focus & sensory, under Per child, each child has three choices per setting: Family (follow the default), On, or Off. A child set to Off stays off even if the family default is on, which matters when one child finds calm mode reassuring and another finds it flat.

Everything is off until you turn it on

No default anywhere in KinHuddle assumes a child needs either of these. They're there for whoever wants them, and invisible otherwise.