Getting Started in PopeTech
This page highlights resources for using PopeTech to manage website accessibility in the College of Science and Engineering. Department communicators and primary editors of sections of the consolidated cse.umn.edu website have access to PopeTech.
Common PopeTech Tasks
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Logging In
- Go to the Pope Tech login page.
- Type your UMN email address.
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:
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Viewing and Adding Websites
- Use the Scan Details widget on the dashboard to get an overview of the sites that need the most attention. See Making PopeTech Easier to Use below for tips on how to make this widget more useful.
- You can also use the Websites item in the left hand navigation to view all sites. This listing does not provide a total error count per site, so may be less useful than the dashboard version.
- The CSE Accessibility team has added all known sites to PopeTech. If you don't see a website you expect, please submit a ticket to [email protected] and we will add the site. Please do not add websites yourself.
- Department communicators should see all websites for your unit(s), including faculty and research group pages.
- Primary editors for sections of the consolidated website should see the websites you manage.
If you are responsible for multiple units, select which group you would like to view from the upper left corner of the PopeTech site.
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Making PopeTech Easier to Use
PopeTech's default displays can contain an overwhelming amount of information. To help focus on the metrics most important to the Accessibility Remediation project, we recommend making the following tweaks to the default dashboard
- For the Automated Scorecard widget, click the gear icon in the upper right corner of the widget, and select the following options:
- Total Errors
- Total Alerts
- For the Scan Detail widget, click the gear icon in the upper right corner and select the following options:
- Errors
- Alerts
- Pages
- Details
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Working With Sites
PopeTech provides two approaches to working with site errors:
- To review errors on a page by page basis, see PopeTech's self-help guide: drilling down into dashboard data
- To review errors based on error type, see OIT's self-help guide: Display the Locations of the Accessibility Errors
Notes:
- The CSE Accessibility team performs recurring scans monthly in the last few days of the month. If you make significant changes to your site(s), you can run a one-off scan by clicking the Start button on a website detail page.
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Fixing Common Errors
- Pope Tech: Fix Empty Heading Errors
- Pope Tech: Fix Missing Alternative Text Errors
- Pope Tech: Fix Empty Link Errors
More self-help guides, including specifics for Drupal, Drupal Lite, and Google Sites coming soon.