Overview

Pope Tech is a web accessibility checking tool available for use with UMN websites. Website editors can use Pope Tech to scan a website for accessibility issues and view a report of specific accessibility errors along with their exact location. You can use this information to resolve accessibility errors on your website, helping your content reach its intended audience.

Highlights

  • See comprehensive reports on accessibility errors and alerts on your website.
  • Set up scheduled scans of your website to continually monitor accessibility.
  • Locate specific accessibility errors and get guidance on how to resolve those errors right from the tool.
  • Can crawl and scan both development and production sites.

Note: Pope Tech does not currently scan for broken links or spelling/grammatical errors; it is solely an accessibility checker.

Getting Started

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].

Already have access? See Log in and Get Started to begin making your website more accessible.

 

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Intended Audience

Staff & Departments

Cost

University-funded: no charge.

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How-Tos

Pope Tech: Crawl and Scan a Website

Once you have added your website to Pope Tech, you are ready to crawl and scan your site to find accessibility errors. The crawling step is how Pope Tech find the webpages on your site; the scanning step produces the...

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Pope Tech: View Your Dashboard

After you have crawled and scanned your website, you are ready to view your dashboard with the results of the scan. In the linked article you will learn how to:

  • View the result types of a scan
  • ...

After you have crawled and scanned your website, you are ready to view your dashboard with the results of the scan.

How-Tos

Pope Tech: Schedule a Scan

Scheduling scans automatically keeps accessibility data up-to-date and automatically catches any issues. Recurring scans can also be automatically emailed to proactively get everyone on the same page and increase...

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