Styling

The style of a cell in Voco Chat indicates what it does. There are three main styles:

Speak

A cell with regular corners is a vocabulary cell. The cell will speak and add words to the chat writing area. This cell will not jump to a different grid.

Cells that look like this speak.

Jump

A cell with a cut off corner is a jump cell. This cell will take you to a different grid with more vocabulary. This cell will not speak or add words to the chat writing area.

Cells that look like this jump.

Speak and Jump

A cell with a coloured corner will speak, add words to the chat writing area and jump you to a grid where you can select the next part of your message.

Cells that look like this speak and jump.

There are also many grids which are styled consistently, in order to support users to communicate within a particular context. These chat grids appear throughout Voco Chat, and each have a column of yellow cells, followed by a block of nine vocabulary cells, sometimes with a jump to more vocabulary on a second grid.

The yellow cells on the left side of the grid highlight key vocabulary which could be used in that context.

The following grids are styled in this way:

Some chat grids contain two columns of highlighted vocabulary, such as the play activity grids, and medical places grids (Dentist, Doctors, Hospital), where there is additional key vocabulary which is important for that topic.