Ghiti: educating our kids to bilingualism
while having fun

“Ghiti” is a site full of cartoons, videos, games, cut-out drawings and much more, designed so that children between 3 and 10 years old can play and have fun in a quality Friulian-Italian bilingual context. Developing and strengthening the knowledge of multiple languages from an early age is "child's play", which gives great cognitive, social and cultural benefits throughout life.

“Ghiti” is a site full of cartoons, videos, games, cut-out drawings and much more, designed so that children between 3 and 10 years old can play and have fun in a quality Friulian-Italian bilingual context. Developing and strengthening the knowledge of multiple languages from an early age is "child's play", which gives great cognitive, social and cultural benefits throughout life.

Notwithstanding its cosy illustrations, Ghiti has a lot of attention on accessibility and good practices

mobile first the site is designed to be viewed mainly in mobile devices and optimized in terms of speed and performance

few simple and immediate commands to access all contents. "Discover mode" to switch among languages.

Each content corresponds to a brief in-depth analysis that allows the parent to verify the contents in advance

Color blindness accessibility : colors and contrasts are designed according to precise contrast scales

Dyslexic-friendly fonts : a special selector allows you to view the texts in a highly readable font

Accessibility for left-handed kids : the menu key can be moved by simple dragging and makes navigation optimal for all children

Ghiti is not a net nanny that encourages passive use: every 30 minutes the site stops viewing the contents, safeguarding the child's health from the risks of excessive viewing time.

What we would like to do

Ghiti aims to be not a friulian-exclusive project: we would like to extend its philosophy and funny characters to all minoritarian languages and cultures, thus creating a stronger, more durable, inclusive project. Our aim is not only to offer it to other cultures, but to take mutual advantage from their peculiarities, adapting and growing its contents in a successful cross-pollination.

technical information

Infrastructure
Wordpress-based, Gutenberg-ready
Two server environment (staging and production)
Bitbucket versioning
Batch importing of external content
Mobile first layout
Barba.js, GSap-powered animation libraries

Table of contents:
Cartoon galleries divided by series
Video galleries divided by series
Audio books divided by categories
Downloadable illustrations divided by categories
HTML5, localizable games divided by categories
"About us" page with related content
"Our territory" page with related content
"Our language" page with related content
"Our kitchen" page with related content
"Our fables" page with related content

Table of features:
full mobile layout with heatmap detection
language-compliant font set
Draggable menu for left-handed
"Parents area" for content insight
Contrast-aware, seasonal palettes
Dyslexia-friendly font switch
"Fairytale mode" to synchronize audio narrations with scrolling
Future implementation: visually impaired accessibility

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