Lumi vs Pope Tech
Multi-engine scanning vs single-engine WAVE - what's the difference?
Pope Tech is a web accessibility platform built on top of the WAVE API. It adds dashboards, multi-page scanning, and group management to WAVE's single engine. Popular in higher education, it's an accessible entry point - but it inherits WAVE's single-engine limitations and misses issues that only cross-engine validation can catch.
What Lumi finds that Pope Tech misses
Five scanning engines vs one - catches issues WAVE misses
300+ rules vs WAVE's ~100
Keyboard interaction testing (focus traps, tab order, focus obscured)
WCAG 2.2 checks (Focus Not Obscured, Target Size, Accessible Auth)
CI/CD API with pass/fail gates for deployment pipelines
AI-powered visual analysis for gradient contrast and icon buttons
Scan comparison and regression alerts
Where Pope Tech falls short
Single scanning engine - inherits all WAVE limitations
No keyboard interaction testing
No WCAG 2.2 specific checks
No CI/CD integration for developer pipelines
Limited rule coverage compared to multi-engine tools
No AI-powered visual analysis