# Testing for Accessibility

**Source**: https://accessibility.web-resources.upenn.edu/testing-evaluating-accessibility
**Parent**: https://accessibility.web-resources.upenn.edu/get-help

Testing for accessibility can happen at any stage of a site or application's lifecycle.

Accessibility testing is a combination of automated and manual evaluation. Automated tools can only pick up 40% or less of accessibility errors without human evaluation ([source(link is external)](https://alphagov.github.io/accessibility-tool-audit/)). Manual testing, in conjunction with automated testing, is a must.

Penn uses [Pope Tech(link is external)](https://pope.tech/) as our accessibility compliance monitoring platform. Pope Tech is built off of the same engine as the World Wide Web Consortium’s (W3C) [WAVE evaluation tool(link is external)](https://wave.webaim.org/). WAVE is a free industry standard tool that can be used to validate the accessibility of a page’s structure, content, and the contrast of colors used in a design.

## Need Pope Tech access?

All members of the University and UPHS community are eligible to receive a Pope Tech Account.

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## [Design and Usability Testing](/testing-evaluating-accessibility/design-and-usability-testing)