Overview

Pope Tech is a web accessibility checking tool available for use with UMN websites. Website owners 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.

If you need assistance understanding your scan results, prioritizing issues, or have other accessibility questions, please see the Get Accessibility Help page on the Office for Digital Accessibility (ODA) website.

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.

Featured Resources

Self-Help Guides

Pope Tech: Run an Accessibility Scan on a UMN Website

Pope Tech is a website accessibility scanning tool available for use on UMN websites. It will help to ensure your site is accessible. This self-help guide takes you through the process of setting up Pope Tech to crawl and scan your site and...

How-Tos

Pope Tech: Crawl a Website and Scan for Issues

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 web pages on your site; the scanning step...

How-Tos

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.

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