Piazza Lite is a version of Piazza that is designed to function more effectively with assistive technologies such as screen readers. Piazza Lite is WCAG 2.0 Level A & AA compliant and supports web and mobile accessibility.
We have partnered with eSSENTIAL Accessibility to offer a free assistive technology app to members of our community who have trouble typing, moving a mouse, or reading. You can read more about our partnership and download the eSSENTIAL Accessibility app for use with Piazza here.
The following functionalities are currently supported in Piazza Lite:
- Viewing class feed and individual posts
- Creating and editing posts, answers, followups and replies
- Switching between classes on user's account
- Marking followups resolved and unresolved
- Anonymous posting
- Markdown, LaTeX, and code block support
- Responding to polls and viewing results
- Marking followups resolved and unresolved
- Viewing Class at a Glance statistics
- Searching and filtering Q&A feed (by unread, unanswered, unresolved, folders, etc.)
- Main post actions (favorite, following, stop following)
- Previewing posts
- Upvoting and creating posts during Live Q&A sessions
- Marking posts and followups with ‘Good question’, ‘Thanks’, ‘Helpful’
- Support for private posts to instructors
- Functionality parity while class is in ‘Lock/Inactive’ mode
- Converting posts from question to note and vice versa
The following functionalities are not currently supported in Piazza Lite:
- Reading Lists
- Flagging as inappropriate
- Marking posts as duplicate
- Creating polls
- Starting and stopping Live Q&A sessions
- Saving drafts
- Creating group posts
- Creating announcements
- History sliders on posts
- Search for Teammates
- Default Piazza helper posts
- Statistics
- Manage Class
Piazza Lite is accessed on the individual user account level. To access Piazza Lite, users with a Piazza account can log in by visiting www.piazza.com/lite, or by visiting “Account/Email Settings” by clicking on the gear icon in the top right-hand corner of the page while logged in:
Under the “Account/Email Settings” page, scroll down to “Universal Access Preferences”, select the checkbox, and click “Save Accessibility Preferences”:
If you have any questions about Piazza Lite or accessibility, please send us an email at team@piazza.com.
If you are a university administrator or staff member that would be interested in reviewing our Voluntary Product Accessibility Template (VPAT), please reach out to us for more information.