Once you have added your website to Pope Tech, you are ready to crawl and scan your site to find accessibility errors. Sites added to Pope Tech are automatically crawled on a monthly basis. You can also manually initiate a crawl for your site. The crawling step is how Pope Tech find the webpages on your site; the scanning step produces the report on accessibility errors and issues found on those pages.
You can also watch the Quick Start: Crawl and Scan video tutorial (2:51).
Content Behind Authentication
Pope Tech cannot scan content behind UMN Single Sign-On (SSO). Here are some options to consider:
- You can use a browser extension such as WAVE, axe DevTools, or others, to scan this content one page at a time.
- If you are using a Drupal site, you can use the Editoria11y module which is included with the UMN Drupal platform.
- If you have content behind authentication in production that is safe to have in front of authentication in a development or staging environment, you can use Pope Tech to scan that content in a lower environment.
- If some protection is still needed in a lower environment but basic authentication is sufficient, Pope Tech can be configured to scan content behind HTTP Basic Auth (i.e. the Shield module in Drupal).
- Please note that per Pope Tech's terms of use, scanning behind a login isn't intended to be used to scan any sensitive, private, or confidential data that shouldn't be stored on Pope Tech servers.
- Access to configure website authentication in Pope Tech is restricted to the Group Manager role.
- Websites or pages behind authentication cannot be crawled. If you have content behind basic authentication, this content can be scanned after you've manually added the pages to Pope Tech or uploaded a CSV file.