Pope Tech is a website accessibility scanning tool that can crawl websites and report back on accessibility errors and issues.
Logging in to Pope Tech
If you need access to Pope Tech, contact the Group Manager(s) for your unit. If you do not know who your Group Manager is, please email [email protected].
- Go to the Pope Tech login page.
- Type your UMN email address.
- System Campus users must enter their email address as "@umn.edu" (e.g. [email protected] would be entered as [email protected] in Pope Tech).
- A radio button to log in with SSO will appear:
- Keep the SSO radio button selected and click the Login button. Pope Tech will authenticate with Shibboleth and you should be directed to your Dashboard view:
Understanding Your Role Permissions in Pope Tech
There are two roles in the UMN Pope Tech instance. Each role has access to do certain tasks:
- Content Contributors
- Add Your Website(s) to Pope Tech
- Run crawls and scans of websites
- View scan results
- Can dismiss individual results
- Create reports
- Schedule website scans
- Group Manager
- All of the above access and tasks Content Contributors can do
- Bulk dismiss a result everywhere it appears on a website
- Create and manage groups
- Manage Pope Tech access for your unit
For questions or issues with Pope Tech, please contact your Group Manager or [email protected].
Additional Resources
Learn more about digital accessibility for websites.
- Enroll in Digital Accessibility: Foundations to begin your learning. Once you have taken Digital Accessibility: Foundations, you will be eligible for any of the other courses in the program.
- If you have already taken the Digital Accessibility: Foundation course, you can enroll in Digital Accessibility: Web Content to learn specific aspects of digital accessibility to use when creating websites.