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data.cms.gov: week 2026-W25

This is the 2026-W25 ISO-week report (2528 pages fetched, 2189 unique pages audited by axe/Alfa). Generated 2026-07-12. Compared against 2026-W24 (2500 fetched). 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
0
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)
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)
Text has minimum contrast ratio of 4.5:1 (WCAG 1.4.8) (rule↗) Moderate 670 — 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 670 — See remediation guidance: https://alfa.siteimprove.com/rules/sia-r111 pages (CSV)
First focusable element is link to main content (WCAG criterion undetermined) (rule↗) Moderate 403 — See remediation guidance: https://alfa.siteimprove.com/rules/sia-r87 pages (CSV)
Text has enhanced contrast (WCAG 1.4.6) (rule↗) Moderate 373 — Increase text contrast to meet WCAG AAA (7:1). pages (CSV)
Heading levels should only increase by one (WCAG criterion undetermined) (rule↗) Moderate 297 — Use heading levels in order (h1 → h2 → h3) without skipping; structure, not size. pages (CSV)
Select element must have an accessible name (WCAG 4.1.2) (rule↗) Critical 129 Without vision, Limited vision Give the <select> an accessible name via a <label> or aria-label. pages (CSV)

Progress

Open findings by severity over 2 weeks (lower is better)
Critical Serious Moderate Minor W24W25220

This week at a glance 37 issue type(s)
Median axe violations / page
1
Pages with axe violations
1292 of 2189
Median Alfa failures / page
41
Pages with Alfa failures
670 of 670
Unique pages audited
2189
Lighthouse performance (median)
49/100 390 sampled details
Lighthouse SEO (median)
92/100
Lighthouse best practices (median)
100/100
Lighthouse agentic (median)
50/100
Words per page (median)
856 main content, nav excluded
Reading ease (median)
7.6 135 prose pages
Reading grade (median)
18
Misspellings
25+ distinct details
Broken links
26 details
Median page weight
2.1 MB -10 KB better
Median requests per page
62
Estimated energy per page (mean)
0.8526 Wh

Note: page counts differ between weeks (2500 → 2528). Prefer the "pages affected" columns over raw instance counts when comparing.

Scan coverage this week (2528 pages · 24 succeeded of 24 attempted)
Pages each engine ran on, per the configured weekly sampling rates.
EnginePagesCoverage
axe218987%
resources218987%
sustainability114845%
deprecated-html112745%
plain-language106342%
standards71928%
alfa67027%
lighthouse39015%
security1406%
tech40%

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

Changes since 2026-W24 10 change(s)

axe-core

No rule-level changes.

Alfa

  • sia-r17 shrank: 205 → 200 pages affected (rate: 19% → 30% of pages scanned).
  • sia-r14 shrank: 273 → 261 pages affected (rate: 25% → 39% of pages scanned).
  • sia-r66 shrank: 751 → 373 pages affected (rate: 70% → 56% of pages scanned).
  • sia-r18 shrank: 392 → 129 pages affected (rate: 36% → 19% of pages scanned).
  • sia-r69 shrank: 564 → 182 pages affected (rate: 52% → 27% of pages scanned).
  • sia-r87 shrank: 805 → 403 pages affected (rate: 75% → 60% of pages scanned).
  • sia-r8 shrank: 104 → 32 pages affected (rate: 10% → 5% of pages scanned).
  • sia-r53 shrank: 231 → 88 pages affected (rate: 21% → 13% of pages scanned).
  • sia-r74 shrank: 58 → 22 pages affected (rate: 5% → 3% of pages scanned).
  • sia-r113 shrank: 39 → 9 pages affected (rate: 4% → 1% of pages scanned).

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 (468)

713 distinct resources, by type.
TypeCount
PDF documents457
Spreadsheets220
Archives (zip, etc.)24
Iframes10
Word/text documents1
Embedded media players1