Doorway Online is a collection of free and highly accessible educational games that learners will find easy to use independently. Each activity has a range of accessibility and difficulty options. Originally developed with funding from Scottish Borders Council, it is now managed by the Doorway Accessible Software Trust, a Scottish charity.
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Single Handed Typing
This activity will guide a person who is effectively single handed user through learning an efficient typing method. It is important that users, their family or support staff read the documentation. There are layout diagrams for both left handed and right handed schemes here: left hand layout, right hand layout. We are grateful to the RS Macdonald Charitable Trust for funding the development of this activity.
If this activity is not loading for you anymore, you can now download the Doorway Activity Pack to use at home or school. It’s free and does not require Flash.
This activity will guide a person who is effectively single handed user through learning an efficient typing method. It is important that users, their family or support staff read the documentation. There are layout diagrams for both left handed and right handed schemes here: left hand layout, right hand layout. We are grateful to the RS Macdonald Charitable Trust for funding the development of this activity.
Text Type 2
The touch typing tutor that takes learners from the home keys to mastery of the whole keyboard and typing sentences. This activity is an improved version of the well used touch typing tutors Text Type and Talking Text Type. The two activities are merged into one.
This activity has been updated to a version that does not require Flash player. Open Text Type 3 here.
Alternatively, you can now download the Doorway Activity Pack to use at home or school. It’s free and does not require Flash.
Typing
These touch typing games will take learners from the home keys to mastery of the whole keyboard and typing sentences. Each activity has a range of accessibility options.
Text Type 3
We have completed Text Type 3, the touch typing tutor for visually impaired learners that should suit anyone learning to touch type.
The new features are aimed at learners with very low vision:
- Text to Speech is available for almost all on-screen text
- TAB, Space and Enter can be used to access most functions
- Newly recorded female and male voices are used to prompt the next keypress and warn of an incorrect keypress.
- Single-Handed Typing is now included in Text Type 3
Text Type 3 – Phase 2
The latest version of our popular touch typing tutor, designed specifically for visually impaired (VI) learners. It is being updated to in order to be compatible with all devices, and to provide additional VI support, including larger text and text to speech. For details, see the news item Text Type 3 – Phase 2 is released.