Pope Tech is an enterprise-level web accessibility evaluation system powered by WebAIM's WAVE tool.
What does it do?
Pope Tech will crawl and scan websites and report accessibility errors and issues. It provides a comprehensive dashboard that helps you quickly locate accessibility issues on your website so that you can fix them or report them to your website administrator to address. With Pope Tech you can:
- 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.
- Crawl and scan both development and production sites.
How do I get access?
To access Pope Tech, contact the Group Manager(s) for your unit. If you do not know who your Group Manager is, email Andy Manteuffel, amanteuf@d.umn.edu.
How do I use it?
Visit Log in and Get Started to begin making your website more accessible.
The Pope Tech Webinar recording Measure Website Accessibility gives an overview of the tool and demonstrates key functionality. You can learn how to set up a website in Pope Tech, run a scan, locate errors, and track progress over time.
Pope Tech documentation is available:
Questions?
For any questions or concerns with using Pope Tech, please email ucm@umn.edu.