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data.cms.gov: week 2026-W38

This is the 2026-W38 ISO-week report (3054 pages fetched, 2520 unique pages audited by axe/Alfa). Generated 2026-09-30. Compared against 2026-W37 (3038 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: 8 finding type(s).

New this week
0
Fixed this week
1
Regressed this week
3

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 1488 — 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 1284 — 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 1278 — See remediation guidance: https://alfa.siteimprove.com/rules/sia-r111 pages (CSV)
Scrollable region must have keyboard access (WCAG 2.1.1) (rule↗) Serious 755 Without vision, Limited manipulation/strength Make scrollable regions keyboard-focusable (tabindex="0") so keyboard users can scroll them. pages (CSV)
Text has enhanced contrast (WCAG 1.4.6) (rule↗) Moderate 766 — Increase text contrast to meet WCAG AAA (7:1). pages (CSV)
First focusable element is link to main content (WCAG criterion undetermined) (rule↗) Moderate 766 — See remediation guidance: https://alfa.siteimprove.com/rules/sia-r87 pages (CSV)
Text has sufficient color contrast (Enhanced) (WCAG 1.4.3) (rule↗) Moderate 759 Limited vision, Without color perception Increase text contrast to meet WCAG AA (4.5:1, or 3:1 for large text). pages (CSV)
aria-hidden element does not contain focusable elements (WCAG 4.1.2) (rule↗) Moderate 404 Without vision, Limited vision See remediation guidance: https://alfa.siteimprove.com/rules/sia-r17 pages (CSV)

Progress

Open findings by severity over 15 weeks (lower is better)
Critical Serious Moderate Minor W24W31W38260

Fixed this week

Dropped from this week's sample

These stopped appearing in scan results, but their pages were not re-checked this week — this is not a confirmed fix.

This week at a glance 37 issue type(s)
Median axe violations / page
1
Pages with axe violations
1520 of 2520 CSV
Median Alfa failures / page
59
Pages with Alfa failures
1284 of 1284 CSV
Unique pages audited
2520
Lighthouse performance (median)
49/100 247 sampled details
Lighthouse SEO (median)
92/100
Lighthouse best practices (median)
100/100
Lighthouse agentic (median)
50/100
Words per page (median)
761 main content, nav excluded
Reading ease (median)
7.5 127 prose pages details
Reading grade (median)
18
Misspellings
25+ distinct details
Broken links
29 details
Median page weight
1.9 MB +113 KB worse
Median requests per page
82
Estimated energy per page (mean)
1.3923 Wh

Note: page counts differ between weeks (3038 → 3054). Prefer the "pages affected" columns over raw instance counts when comparing.

Scan coverage this week (3054 pages · 2642 succeeded of 2807 attempted)
Pages each engine ran on, per the configured weekly sampling rates.
EnginePagesCoverage
axe252083%
resources252083%
alfa128442%
plain-language125441%
standards121540%
sustainability2769%
deprecated-html2719%
lighthouse2699%
tech2578%
security2548%

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

Changes since 2026-W37 5 change(s)

axe-core

  • Resolved: empty-heading no longer fails on any scanned page.

Alfa

  • New: sia-r2 appeared this week.
  • Resolved: sia-r12 no longer fails on any scanned page.
  • sia-r111 spread: 1217 → 1278 pages affected (rate: 97% → 100% of pages scanned).
  • sia-r59 shrank: 38 → 6 pages affected (rate: 3% → 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 (2)

737 distinct resources, by type.
TypeCount
PDF documents477
Spreadsheets225
Archives (zip, etc.)23
Iframes10
Word/text documents1
Embedded media players1