Accessing Higher Ground 2026

Join our team at Accessing Higher Ground!

Pope Tech will be in person in Denver, come visit us at booth #2 or check out one of our presentations.

2026 Presentations:

• Accessibility Recipes: Flexible Manual Testing
• • 8:30am MT in Penrose I on Wednesday, November 18.
  • Mark Pope, Director of Customer Success
• Create and Leverage an AIM Score (for Web Accessibility)
• • 11:45am MT in Colorado G-H on Wednesday, November 18
  • Jay Pope, Web Accessibility Specialist & CEO
• Accessibility training by role {everyone has a role in accessibility}
• • 3:15pm MT in Penrose I on Wednesday, November 18
  • Whitney Lewis, Web Accessibility Specialist

Past Presentations:

The Pope Tech team has been attending and sponsoring AHG since 2018.

• 2025
• • Mark Pope: How Higher Ed Is Responding to the New Accessibility Regulations (The 4k Project 2025 Update)
• 2024
• • Jay Pope: The Web Accessibility Framework: A Way to Understand, Organize, Improve, and Communicate Web Accessibility
• 2023
• • Mark Pope: Web Accessibility in Higher Education: Update of the Pope Tech 4k Project
• 2022
• • Jay Pope: Simplifying Web Accessibility at Any Scale
  • Mark Pope: Engaging Teams Across Campus: Lessons learned from working with higher education institutions
• 2021
• • Jay Pope: Simplifying Web Accessibility at Any Scale
• 2020
• • Mark Pope: WAVE for your whole.edu
• 2019
• • Jay Pope: Web Accessibility in Higher Education: An Analysis of over 4,000 Institutions