Keyboard smashing for toddlers local HTML page #
You can save Typing Page to your local computer or just use it directly at the link.
My tiniest people love to ’type’ on my computer. I’ve looked in vain for a decent children’s typing toy but they’re all flimsy plastic with way too many distracting bells-and-whistles or not in the actual QWERTY format. Definitely a gap in the market for a simple keyboard with a LED display that just shows the keys pressed and can stand up to the enthusiasm of a toddler.
This is a simple script that blocks all the keyboard presses except for A-Z and 0-9. There’s a (visibly shown in right-hand corner) escape Alt+Shift+X to return to the starting page. Kids can type in up to 9 characters a line and pressing space will clear the entered characters. The most recently pressed is the brightest and the background gently changes colour as they type. The app uses the default computer reading voices.
You can edit the html file to add your child’s name, change the font size etc - the code is basic and clear.
Tested by multiple small people successfully.