University web pages need to follow federal accessibility laws and University standards. While Drupal templates are built to meet these standards, site owners must ensure their sites stay compliant.
Basic Information
- Web Accessibility Overview: Discover the essential "what, who, why, how, and when" of web accessibility.
- Start With the 7 Core Skills of Digital Accessibility: Begin your learning journey with these foundational skills.
- Drupal Drop-in Accessibility Playbook & Slide Index: Develop your skills further with a set of comprehensive Playbooks and corresponding slide decks that cover key topics, including headings, lists, tables, text alternatives, video & audio, contrast & color, documents, Editoria11y, and the WAVE.
- UM Policy on Accessibility of Information Technology: Review the official University policy governing the accessibility of all Information Technology resources.
Editoria11y: An easy to use accessibility tool
Editoria11y (short for "editorial accessibility ally" and pronounced editorially) is a user-friendly tool that can help you make your content more accessible.
It runs automatically on University of Minnesota Drupal websites and is available to all content editors. It works like spellcheck, identifying accessibility issues directly in Drupal, focusing on content problems that editors can easily fix.
Editoria11y Instructions
- Drupal: Find Content Accessibility Issues with Editoria11y
- Drupal: Use the Content Accessibility Issues Report
- Playbook: Accessibility with Editoria11y
Pope Tech: A web accessibility evaluation system
Pope Tech is available to University website editors using Drupal. Features include:
- Full site scanning
- Tracking progress over time
- Checks for both content & template areas
- Reports
- Built-in training resources
Get a Pope Tech Accessibility Report
ITSS runs weekly Pope Tech scans on our UMD websites. You may request a PopeTech Accessibility Report or Accessibility Consultation for your UMD web site.
Pope Tech Instructions
If you have access to Pope Tech, Log in and Get Started to begin making your website more accessible.
Additional Pope Tech documentation is available:
- Add a Website
- Crawl and Scan a Website
- Scan Websites or Applications Behind Authentication
- Scan Drupal Intranet Content
- Scan Google Sites Intranet Content
- Create and Email Reports
- Schedule a Scan
- View Your Dashboard
- Display Locations of Accessibility Errors
- Fix Missing Alternative Text Errors
- Fix Empty Heading Errors
- Fix Empty Link Errors
- Self Help Guide
A webinar recording, Measure Website Accessibility is available. It provides an overview of Pope Tech, showing how to set up a website, run scans, find errors, and track progress over time.
GrackleDocs: A Google add-on for Docs, Slides, and Sheets
GrackleDocs performs checks for things such as:
- Missing or inappropriate image descriptions
- Incorrect heading structure
- Data tables missing headers
- Reading order issues
Then it guides you through a step-by-step remediation process to resolve any potential barriers.
For instructions on how to install, launch, and use GrackleDocs, please consult the Office of Information Technologies' (OIT) guide Google Drive: Use GrackleDocs Accessibility Checker.
Have Questions or Need Help?
- Attend an ITSS Drupal Drop-in session.
- Email [email protected] to open a ticket.