Kid view and accessibility

Help · Updated 18 August 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.

Set a PIN if you want the exit locked

Without a PIN, "👋 Done — back to grown-ups" simply returns to the normal app. Set one in Menu → Family settings and leaving Kid view asks for it. It's a speed bump for a shared phone rather than hard security, and that's the right size of thing for what it protects.

One thing at a time

Family 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.

Both settings are off until you turn them on

They're family-wide rather than per-child today. If you have one child who needs one step at a time and one who'd rather see the whole list, tell us — it's the change we'd most like to know is wanted.