Accessibility

Last updated November 3, 2026

1. Our goal
2. What students can do
3. Accommodations professors can set
4. Known limitations
5. How we test
6. Report a problem

1. Our goal

Every student should be able to teach Jot, take the quiz and answer the live questions, whatever assistive technology they use. Verela aims to meet the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.1 at Level AA, and we check new work against WCAG 2.2 Level AA as well.

This statement covers the Verela app that students and professors open from their learning management system, the public demo, and this website.

2. What students can do

• Use all of Verela with a keyboard alone. A “Skip to main content” link starts every page, and the control with focus is always outlined.
• Hear Jot’s replies, notebook updates, time warnings and errors with a screen reader as they happen.
• Type instead of speaking at any time, and choose typing before an oral exam starts.
• Replay a question, mute Jot, or slow down or speed up Jot’s voice.
• Hide the sound bars that move while you answer out loud. Your device’s reduced motion setting stops all animation.
• Use light or dark mode (Verela follows your device), Windows high contrast, and zoom up to 400% or a phone screen without scrolling sideways.
• Read math with a screen reader, since equations include MathML. Jot also says math out loud in words.
• In language courses, screen readers pronounce the reading and conversation in the course’s language, because the text is marked with it.

3. Accommodations professors can set

Each of these is set for one student, on that student’s page in Verela. Students who need one should ask their professor or their disability services office.

• More time on each live question and oral exam follow-up: 1.5×, 2× or 3× the time, or no time limit. With no time limit, there’s no timer and nothing is submitted automatically.
• Copy, paste and dictation tools. To keep the work the student’s own, Verela blocks pasting and copying by default. This accommodation turns that off, for students who use word prediction, AAC, dictation tools that paste, or text-to-speech of selected text.

For the whole class, a professor can also make the live check practice only, so it doesn’t count toward the grade, or turn it off. School administrators can set these as defaults for a department.

4. Known limitations

• Time limits. Students can’t extend or pause a live question’s time themselves. Extra time or no time limit comes through the professor (WCAG 2.2.1, rated Partially Supports).
• Speaking answers uses your browser’s speech recognition, which Chrome, Edge and Safari have and Firefox doesn’t. The browser may send the audio to Google or Apple to turn it into text. Typing always works, and a school can turn spoken answers off.
• Paste and copy blocking can interfere with some assistive tools until the accommodation above is turned on.
• Assistive technology testing. We haven’t yet tested Verela with screen readers, voice control or switch access on real devices. That testing is next, and we’ll update this page and the report after it.

5. How we test

Each release is checked with axe-core on every screen of the app, in light and dark mode and at desktop and phone widths, and by keyboard. We also measure reflow at 320 pixels wide, text spacing, target sizes and color contrast. The Accessibility Conformance Report lists the methods and the result for each WCAG criterion.

6. Report a problem

If you can’t do something in Verela, or something is hard to use with your assistive technology, email hello@getverela.com. It helps to tell us what you were trying to do, the page, and the browser and assistive technology you use.

We’ll reply, fix what we can, and work with your professor or school on another way to finish the work in the meantime. Ask us for this page or the report in another format and we’ll send it.