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data.cms.gov: week 2026-W26

This is the 2026-W26 ISO-week report (2559 pages fetched, 2207 unique pages audited by axe/Alfa). Generated 2026-07-13. Compared against 2026-W25 (2528 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).

Change this week

New this week
1
Fixed this week
1
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↗) Moderate 1277 — 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 1111 — 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 1111 — See remediation guidance: https://alfa.siteimprove.com/rules/sia-r111 pages (CSV)
Scrollable region must have keyboard access (WCAG 2.1.1) (rule↗) Serious 578 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 645 — See remediation guidance: https://alfa.siteimprove.com/rules/sia-r87 pages (CSV)
Text has enhanced contrast (WCAG 1.4.6) (rule↗) Moderate 602 — Increase text contrast to meet WCAG AAA (7:1). pages (CSV)
aria-hidden element does not contain focusable elements (WCAG 4.1.2) (rule↗) Moderate 361 Without vision, Limited vision See remediation guidance: https://alfa.siteimprove.com/rules/sia-r17 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)

Progress

Open findings by severity over 3 weeks (lower is better)
Critical Serious Moderate Minor W24W25W26230
Open findings by severity, by week
WeekCriticalSeriousModerateMinor
2026-W24210232
2026-W25210232
2026-W26210232

Fixed this week

This week at a glance 37 issue type(s)

Median axe violations / page
1
Pages with axe violations
1305 of 2207
Median Alfa failures / page
42
Pages with Alfa failures
1111 of 1111
Unique pages audited
2207
Lighthouse performance (median)
47/100 187 sampled details
Lighthouse SEO (median)
92/100
Lighthouse best practices (median)
100/100
Lighthouse agentic (median)
50/100
Words per page (median)
918 main content, nav excluded
Reading ease (median)
10 130 prose pages
Reading grade (median)
18
Misspellings
25+ distinct details
Broken links
20 details
Median page weight
2.8 MB +720 KB worse
Median requests per page
60
Estimated energy per page (mean)
0.8592 Wh

Note: page counts differ between weeks (2528 → 2559). Prefer the "pages affected" columns over raw instance counts when comparing.

Scan coverage this week (2559 pages · 2208 succeeded of 2209 attempted)
Pages each engine ran on, per the configured weekly sampling rates.
EnginePagesCoverage
axe220786%
resources220786%
plain-language113544%
standards111343%
alfa111143%
lighthouse2359%
tech2269%
security2229%
deprecated-html2229%
sustainability2219%

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

Changes since 2026-W25 4 change(s)

axe-core

No rule-level changes.

Alfa

  • Resolved: sia-r64 no longer fails on any scanned page.
  • sia-r87 spread: 403 → 645 pages affected (rate: 60% → 58% of pages scanned).
  • sia-r17 spread: 200 → 361 pages affected (rate: 30% → 32% of pages scanned).
  • sia-r14 shrank: 261 → 1 pages affected (rate: 39% → 0% 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 (15)

726 distinct resources, by type.
TypeCount
PDF documents458
Spreadsheets232
Archives (zip, etc.)24
Iframes10
Word/text documents1
Embedded media players1