Typio, the accessible typing tutor for all learners
Highly visual and fully audible, Typio provides an inclusive, engaging experience that meets diverse educational needs from anywhere
Typio, the accessible typing tutor for all learners
Highly visual and fully audible, Typio provides an inclusive, engaging experience that meets diverse educational needs from anywhere
Fun, Engaging and Incentivizing
Typing Pets turn learning into a sense of ownership
- Unique Typing Pet System: Motivate progress! Earn stars and collect coins as you master lessons. Use coins to feed, play games with, and customize your Typing Pet.
- Interactive Games: Keep students motivated and excited with typing games that reinforce skills and keyboard exploration.
- Fun Themes: Fun pet themes change the look and sound of Typio, like our festive Winter Wonderland or spooky Halloween themes, offering new ways to make learning fun and rewarding.
- Building Routine and Responsibility: Regular lessons help students care for their pet, encouraging consistent practice and goal setting.
- Emotional Engagement: Typing Pets give learners a friendly, nonjudgmental companion that celebrates their success and makes typing feel meaningful.
Fun, Engaging & Incentivizing
Typing Pets turn learning into a sense of ownership
- Unique Typing Pet System: Motivate progress! Earn stars and collect coins as you master lessons. Use coins to feed, play games with, and customize your Typing Pet.
- Interactive Games: Keep students motivated and excited with typing games that reinforce skills and keyboard exploration.
- Fun Themes: Fun pet themes change the look and sound of Typio, like our festive Winter Wonderland or spooky Halloween themes, offering new ways to make learning fun and rewarding.
- Building Routine and Responsibility: Regular lessons help students care for their pet, encouraging consistent practice and goal setting.
- Emotional Engagement: Typing Pets give learners a friendly, nonjudgmental companion that celebrates their success and makes typing feel meaningful.
Intuitive Learning
Typio makes learning to type fun and motivating
- Guided Journey: Embark on a fully guided Typing Journey of 130 lessons tailored for all levels.
- Progressive Skills: Lessons and tutorials are structured to build skills key-by-key, while practice lessons focus on specific drills.
- Typing Tips: Tips, strategies and coaching are shared directly within Typio to enhance student skills and confidence
Real-Time Progress Tracking
Easily monitor and report progress to support IEPs and student development.
- Detailed Scoring: Gain insight from every lesson, including detailed scoring and helpful coaching to meet individualized typing goals.
- Achievements & Rewards: Earn stars, coins and achievements as students complete lessons and master new keys.
- Immediate Feedback: Students receive instant feedback and motivational messages to keep them engaged and improving.
Designed for Accessibility
Accessibility isn't an afterthought. It's the foundation.
Built for accessibility and simplicity, Typio is trusted by educators across special education and mainstream classrooms. Its distraction-free design and spoken prompts support blind, visually impaired, deaf, hard of hearing, dyslexic and neurodiverse learners, while remaining effective and engaging for all students.
One tool, built for every classroom.
- Highly Customizable: Tailor your learning experience with extensive visual and audio settings. Adjust text size, choose color themes, customize keypress sounds, simplify distractions and more.
- Simple Navigation: Effortlessly navigate Typio’s easy interface using only Up, Down and Enter keys.
- Self-Voicing: Fully narrated menus, lessons and feedback. Fully tested with screen readers but they’re not required.
Designed for Accessibility
Accessibility isn't an afterthought. It's the foundation.
Built for accessibility and simplicity, Typio is trusted by educators across special education and mainstream classrooms. Its distraction-free design and spoken prompts support blind, visually impaired, deaf, hard of hearing, dyslexic and neurodiverse learners, while remaining effective and engaging for all students.
One tool, built for every classroom.
- Highly Customizable: Tailor your learning experience with extensive visual and audio settings. Adjust text size, choose color themes, customize keypress sounds, simplify distractions and more.
- Simple Navigation: Effortlessly navigate Typio’s easy interface using only Up, Down and Enter keys.
- Self-Voicing: Fully narrated menus, lessons and feedback. Fully tested with screen readers but they’re not required.
Built for School & Home Use
Typio seamlessly supports classroom integration and at-home learning.
Created by a special education instructor, Typio empowers students for independent learning both at home and at school.
Teachers and administrators will find Typio School Edition is an invaluable resource for providing an effective and inclusive keyboarding solution for their students.
Teachers consistently share significant improvements in student typing speed and accuracy, along with increased excitement for learning.
The teacher dashboard included with Typio School Edition provides powerful tools to remotely:
- Set goals
- Send custom lessons
- Track student progress
- Manage settings
- Export reports
- Create and manage student accounts
Built for School & Home Use
Typio seamlessly supports classroom integration and at-home learning.
Created by a special education instructor, Typio empowers students for independent learning both at home and at school.
Teachers and administrators will find Typio School Edition is an invaluable resource for providing an effective and inclusive keyboarding solution for their students.
Teachers consistently share significant improvements in student typing speed and accuracy, along with increased excitement for learning.
The teacher dashboard included with Typio School Edition provides powerful tools to remotely:
- Set goals
- Send custom lessons
- Track student progress
- Manage settings
- Export reports
- Create and manage student accounts
Teachers Love Typio
Typio was created by a special education instructor who wanted students and teachers to have something special. Here's what teachers are saying...
Wendy, Teacher of the Visually Impaired
“I love Typio! I have been in the field for over 30 years and it is the first program that I have ever seen the students excited to use.”
Angela, Teacher of the Visually Impaired
“Can I just say with Typio's audio support my student has gone from typing 5 words per minute to 28! Accuracy above 90%! Loving this program over here.”
Allison, Teacher of the Visually Impaired
“Um my student LOVES typio. She particularly likes Tromli (her typing pet) and is all about earning coinage.”
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Select a Plan
Typio
$69.95/year
- Learn the entire keyboard
- Guided tutorials
- Gamified typing tutor
- Stats and achievements
- Totally accessible
- Customizable
- Inclusive and mainstream
- Any device, anywhere
- 1 Home User account
- 365 day access
Includes
Typio
Have fun learning to type while raising your Typing Pet
All Access
$99.95/year
- Everything in Typio, plus:
- Study with flashcards
- Look up info
- Accessible learning tools
- Talking calculator
- Play accessible games
- All apps accessible
- Any device, anywhere
- 1 Home User account
- 365 day access
Includes
Typio
Have fun learning to type while raising your Typing Pet
Quick Cards
A fast and accessible way to study with flashcards
Study Pack
Calc, Dictionary, To-Do, Notes, Reader and more.
Arcade
A collection of fund accessible games
Braillio
Learn to type braille without special hardware
School Edition
$79.95+/year
- Seat-based licensing
- Choose your apps
- Teacher Dashboard
- Manage your roster
- Remote settings
- Report and track data
- Single or Multi-Year
- Used in schools
- Adult training centers
- Itinerant-friendly
Accessibyte Studio
- Simple productivity
- Stay connected
- Smart utilities
- Media made accessible
- Engaging learning apps
- Accessibility Included
- Screen reader compatible
Ways to Access Typio
- Cloud-Based: No installation required. Access Typio instantly from Chromebooks, PCs, Macs, tablets and specialty devices.
- Easy Device Installation: For users who prefer local access, simple installation instructions are provided.
- Flexible Licensing: Affordable plans for individual learners, classrooms, schools or entire districts.
- Standard Login: Access through any browser.
- Progressive Web App: Install to desktop/home screen for an app experience.
- 1-Click Login: School Edition Teachers can create instant access links for students.
Features You'll Love
100% usable without vision or without hearing.
Also usable by sighted and hearing students.
No need for outside assistive technology.
Totally remote—log in from school or home.
Learn the standard QWERTY keyboard.
Compatible with almost any device.
These typing modes are all usable while students raise their Typing Pet. Their pet is onscreen, audibly announcing each key they press. While Typing Journey earns the student Typing Stars, they also earn coins from the training modes.
Typing Journey
Fully guided training through 130 included typing lessons. A tutorial introduces each new key before moving the student to the typing lesson. Learning a new key earns the student a Typing Star, encouraging students to continue their journey.
Practice Training
Practice any of the included lessons.
Custom Training
Practice custom lessons created by the teacher.
Mini Training
10 random typing prompts based on the current key.
Free Type
Type without prompting. When the time is up receive your typing score. A real-world test of typing skills.
Keyboard Explore
A teaching tool for exploring the keyboard to hear each key.
Basic Modes are intended for users who do not wish to use the Typing Pet feature. This is a great solution for older learners or even younger students who would be distracted otherwise. The entire keyboard can be learned using Basic Modes.
Progress Mode
Fully guided training through 45 included typing lessons. A tutorial introduces each new key before moving the student to the typing lesson.
Lesson Practice
Practice any of the included lessons or custom lessons sent by teh teacher.
Mini Review
10 random typing prompts based on the current key.
Free Type
Type without prompting. When the time is up receive your typing score. A real-world test of typing skills.
Keyboard Explore
A teaching tool for exploring the keyboard to hear each key.
Chatterbox
Press and hold the keys to make your Typing Pet voice them in a wacky way. Focus on keyboard exploration.
Typio Idol
Make your Typing Pet sing to the music while you press keys on the keyboard. Focus on keyboard exploration.
Hot or Cold
Help your pet find the correct key. They’ll let you know if you’re getting warmer or colder. Focus on accuracy.
Race
Quickly alternate between keys to run the race. Typo’s set you back. Focus on speed.
Samurai*
Wait in anticipation of the until you hear the key to strike. Focus on speed and accuracy.
Echo*
Repeat the increasing list of keypress in the correct order. Focus on accuracy.
*Samurai and Echo are available only to Accessibyte All Access users. These are special versions of Accessibyte Arcade games that show up in Typio, allowing students to play the games using the keys they have learned.
All components of Typio are fully accessible with or without either hearing or vision.
Visual Settings
Text Size, Text Style, Onscreen Keyboard & Hands, Color Themes
Audio Settings
Keypress Sounds, Sounds Effects, Speech, Speech Rate, Speech Pitch.
App Settings
WPM Goal, Accuracy Goal
Accessibility Settings
Simplified Visuals, Color Filter, Single Word Mode, Smart WPM
Simple Navigation
Only Up, Down, Enter and Escape to navigate. Navigation is always announced to the user so there are no hidden commands.
Fully Guided Captioned
Instructions and Captions aren’t simply an option, they’re a core component of the program always present on every screen.
Screen Reader Support
Typio contains it’s own optional screen reader. Users can also disable Typio’s screen reader and use their own.
Ease of Use
Typio is intuitive by design and fully supported with clear, step-by-step guides.
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