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data.cms.gov: week 2026-W24

This is the 2026-W24 ISO-week report (2500 pages fetched, 2167 unique pages audited by axe/Alfa). Generated 2026-07-06. First recorded week; no comparison yet. The dashboard headline uses a rolling last-7-days window; this page is the full ISO week. Machine-readable API: snapshot.json · findings.json.

Primary standards queue: 0 required finding type(s) (handling: report). Verification queue: 20 required finding type(s) (handling: review). Aspirational queue: 0 finding type(s). Advisory queue: 0 finding type(s). Unmapped review queue: 7 finding type(s).

New this week
37
Fixed this week
0
Regressed this week
0

Fix these first

Highest-leverage issues, ranked by pages affected × severity × people reached. Fixing a shared component often clears many pages at once. Issue links go to the full bug detail on the Accessibility page.

Top 8 issues to prioritize this week.
IssueSeverityPagesWho it affectsHow to fixEvidence
Banner landmark should not be contained in another landmark (WCAG criterion undetermined) (rule↗) Serious 1264 — Put the banner landmark (<header>) at the top level, not nested inside another landmark. pages (CSV)
Text has minimum contrast ratio of 4.5:1 (WCAG 1.4.8) (rule↗) Moderate 1077 — See remediation guidance: https://alfa.siteimprove.com/rules/sia-r73 pages (CSV)
Target size is at least 44×44 CSS pixels (Enhanced) (WCAG 2.5.5) (rule↗) Moderate 1077 — See remediation guidance: https://alfa.siteimprove.com/rules/sia-r111 pages (CSV)
Scrollable region must have keyboard access (WCAG 2.1.1) (rule↗) Serious 565 Without vision, Limited manipulation/strength Make scrollable regions keyboard-focusable (tabindex="0") so keyboard users can scroll them. pages (CSV)
First focusable element is link to main content (WCAG criterion undetermined) (rule↗) Moderate 805 — See remediation guidance: https://alfa.siteimprove.com/rules/sia-r87 pages (CSV)
Text has enhanced contrast (WCAG 1.4.6) (rule↗) Moderate 751 — Increase text contrast to meet WCAG AAA (7:1). pages (CSV)
Text has sufficient color contrast (Enhanced) (WCAG 1.4.3) (rule↗) Moderate 564 Limited vision, Without color perception Increase text contrast to meet WCAG AA (4.5:1, or 3:1 for large text). pages (CSV)
aria attribute is permitted for element role (WCAG criterion undetermined) (rule↗) Moderate 392 — Only use ARIA states/properties that are allowed on this element/role. pages (CSV)

Progress

This week at a glance 37 issue type(s)
Median axe violations / page
1
Pages with axe violations
1292 of 2167
Median Alfa failures / page
41
Pages with Alfa failures
1077 of 1077
Unique pages audited
2167
Lighthouse performance (median)
46/100 166 sampled details
Lighthouse SEO (median)
92/100
Lighthouse best practices (median)
100/100
Words per page (median)
1191 main content, nav excluded
Reading ease (median)
8 50 prose pages
Reading grade (median)
18
Misspellings
25+ distinct details
Broken links
8 details
Median page weight
2.1 MB
Median requests per page
62
Estimated energy per page (mean)
0.5917 Wh
Scan coverage this week (2500 pages)
Pages each engine ran on, per the configured weekly sampling rates.
EnginePagesCoverage
axe216787%
sustainability216787%
deprecated-html156763%
resources129252%
alfa107743%
plain-language69628%
lighthouse1667%

History & Trends → Severity, Lighthouse and other measures across 17 weeks.

Embedded & linked resources

Non-HTML resources this site links to or embeds — PDFs, Office documents, iframes, and media. The site owner is responsible for their accessibility too. Full inventory with first-seen dates: CSV.

New this week (245)

245 distinct resources, by type.
TypeCount
Spreadsheets160
PDF documents82
Archives (zip, etc.)2
Embedded media players1