Responsible and inclusive by design
Commitments a reviewer can hold us to
Access comes first here, because an activity a family cannot reach is not an activity. Each commitment below is written so that it could be checked before a pilot begins, and again after it ends.
Access commitments
A family with no smartphone, no data plan, limited reading comfort, low vision, or a child who cannot move freely should be able to do the same activity as everyone else, on the same day, without asking for a special version.
Printed and facilitated alternatives
Every activity exists on paper with the same facilitator support, so no family needs a device or data plan to take part.How we would check it: Before launch: every activity in the pilot library has a printed equivalent on file. During the pilot: printed and digital participation are reported side by side, and printed use is treated as success, not fallback.
A proposed spoken option
A voice channel is proposed so a caregiver who cannot easily read a screen, or whose hands are busy, can still take part — alongside printed activities and seated play, never instead of them.How we would check it: Before launch: speech recognition tested with caregivers across accents and in Spanish, with a documented pass rate and a plain fallback when it fails.
Seated and low-movement play
Every play variation has a seated, no-equipment form, offered by default rather than on request.How we would check it: Before launch: no play activity ships without a seated form, and the seated form is presented first rather than behind a link.
Accessible controls and optional read-aloud with matching text
Large tap targets, keyboard access, visible focus, and read-aloud that a caregiver starts — never autoplay — always paired with the same text on screen.How we would check it: Before launch: a keyboard-only run of a full activity, a screen-reader run, and a contrast and tap-target check, each repeated after any change to the activity flow.
English and Spanish initially, with human review before launch
Both languages are reviewed by people, not machine-translated into use. Additional languages would follow the same review.How we would check it: Before launch: a named bilingual reviewer signs off every passage and prompt. During the pilot: usefulness and completion are reported separately by language.
Clear staff-support hours
Published hours for human help, with an honest message outside them instead of an assistant improvising.How we would check it: During the pilot: time to a human reply is recorded, and any request left unanswered inside published hours is treated as a defect.
Safety, privacy, and honesty commitments
Caregiver-guided participation; no child accounts
A caregiver receives, opens, and runs every activity. Children have no login, no profile, and no independent access.
Clear AI disclosure
The Coach says it is AI and can be wrong, in the activity itself, in words a seven-year-old can follow.
No advertising or commercial profiling
No advertising, no third-party marketing, no behavioral profiles, and no sale or sharing of family information.
Minimal data collection
Collect only what an evaluation needs: participation, access mode, language, and feedback. No child names, schools, or free-text about a child.
Approved, culturally relevant content
Every passage and activity is reviewed by educators and reflects the families and neighborhoods taking part.
Consent and privacy review before deployment
Caregiver consent, retention limits, deletion, and opt-out reviewed and signed off before any family is invited.
A pause procedure for serious safety or privacy incidents
A named owner can stop the service the same day, notify affected caregivers, and revert to printed activities.
No impact on access to meals, books, or other foundation services
Declining, leaving, or never starting changes nothing about what a family receives from the foundation.
Adult mediation does not eliminate children's privacy obligations. A caregiver operating the service does not turn a child's information into ordinary adult data — collection limits, retention limits, parental consent, and deletion rights still apply, and the design assumes them from the start rather than adding them later.
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