data.cms.gov: week 2026-W40
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- New this week
- 0
- Fixed this week
- 3
- Regressed this week
- 1
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| Issue | Severity | Pages | Who it affects | How to fix | Evidence |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Banner landmark should not be contained in another landmark (WCAG criterion undetermined) (rule↗) | Moderate | 1093 | — | 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 | 558 | 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 | 884 | — | 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 | 884 | — | See remediation guidance: https://alfa.siteimprove.com/rules/sia-r111 | pages (CSV) |
| Text has enhanced contrast (WCAG 1.4.6) (rule↗) | Moderate | 538 | — | Increase text contrast to meet WCAG AAA (7:1). | pages (CSV) |
| First focusable element is link to main content (WCAG criterion undetermined) (rule↗) | Moderate | 538 | — | See remediation guidance: https://alfa.siteimprove.com/rules/sia-r87 | pages (CSV) |
| Text has sufficient color contrast (Enhanced) (WCAG 1.4.3) (rule↗) | Moderate | 537 | 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 | 275 | Without vision, Limited vision | See remediation guidance: https://alfa.siteimprove.com/rules/sia-r17 | pages (CSV) |
Progress
| Week | Critical | Serious | Moderate | Minor |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-W24 | 2 | 10 | 23 | 2 |
| 2026-W25 | 2 | 10 | 23 | 2 |
| 2026-W26 | 2 | 10 | 23 | 2 |
| 2026-W27 | 2 | 10 | 24 | 2 |
| 2026-W28 | 2 | 10 | 22 | 2 |
| 2026-W29 | 2 | 10 | 24 | 2 |
| 2026-W30 | 2 | 10 | 25 | 2 |
| 2026-W31 | 2 | 10 | 26 | 2 |
| 2026-W32 | 2 | 10 | 24 | 2 |
| 2026-W33 | 2 | 10 | 22 | 2 |
| 2026-W34 | 2 | 10 | 22 | 2 |
| 2026-W35 | 2 | 10 | 25 | 2 |
| 2026-W36 | 2 | 10 | 24 | 1 |
| 2026-W37 | 2 | 10 | 22 | 2 |
| 2026-W38 | 2 | 10 | 24 | 1 |
| 2026-W39 | 2 | 10 | 23 | 2 |
| 2026-W40 | 1 | 6 | 22 | 2 |
Fixed this week
- Critical VS-fafffee0 Form elements must have labels (WCAG 4.1.2)
- Serious VS-33841929 Form elements should have a visible label (WCAG criterion undetermined)
- Moderate VS-7fbb8b20 Element with orientation is not locked (WCAG criterion undetermined)
Dropped from this week's sample
- Serious VS-cc981723 <svg> elements with an img role must have alternative text (WCAG 1.1.1)
- Serious VS-a0bdbdf6 <ul> and <ol> must only directly contain <li>, <script> or <template> elements (WCAG 1.3.1)
- Serious VS-ebb1c464 Elements must only use permitted ARIA attributes (WCAG 4.1.2)
- Moderate VS-04a9d28c Presentational attribute (use CSS) (WCAG criterion undetermined)
This week at a glance 31 issue type(s)
- Median axe violations / page
- 1
- Pages with axe violations
- 1118 of 1840 CSV
- Median Alfa failures / page
- 59
- Pages with Alfa failures
- 884 of 884 CSV
- Unique pages audited
- 1840
- Lighthouse performance (median)
- 49/100 details
- Lighthouse SEO (median)
- 92/100
- Lighthouse best practices (median)
- 100/100
- Lighthouse agentic (median)
- 100/100
- Words per page (median)
- 763
- Reading ease (median)
- 7.5 details
- Reading grade (median)
- 18
- Misspellings
- 25+ distinct details
- Broken links
- 19 details
- Median page weight
- 1.8 MB -158 KB better
- Median requests per page
- 22
- Estimated energy per page (mean)
- 1.2735 Wh
Note: page counts differ between weeks (3077 → 2550). Prefer the "pages affected" columns over raw instance counts when comparing.
Scan coverage this week (2550 pages · 1961 succeeded of 2349 attempted)
| Engine | Pages | Coverage |
|---|---|---|
| axe | 1840 | 72% |
| resources | 1840 | 72% |
| standards | 913 | 36% |
| plain-language | 912 | 36% |
| alfa | 884 | 35% |
| sustainability | 199 | 8% |
| lighthouse | 184 | 7% |
| security | 182 | 7% |
| tech | 174 | 7% |
| deprecated-html | 163 | 6% |
Changes since 2026-W39 7 change(s)
axe-core
- Resolved: label-title-only no longer fails on any scanned page.
- Resolved: label no longer fails on any scanned page.
- Resolved: aria-prohibited-attr no longer fails on any scanned page.
- Resolved: list no longer fails on any scanned page.
- Resolved: svg-img-alt no longer fails on any scanned page.
Alfa
- New: sia-r12 appeared this week.
- Resolved: sia-r59 no longer fails on any scanned page.
Embedded & linked resources
New this week (9)
- https://data.cms.gov/provider-data/sites/default/files/resources/73ce05bc6ecbb5def0e859818a906f7b_1790013961/Unplanned_Hospital_Visits-State.csv
- https://data.cms.gov/provider-data/sites/default/files/resources/30edc1d0417a34b58affcc2495a02b0a_1790013959/Unplanned_Hospital_Visits-Hospital.csv
- https://data.cms.gov/provider-data/sites/default/files/resources/d30b0557f1d06bee1d5646d2eaede709_1790013960/Unplanned_Hospital_Visits-National.csv
- https://data.cms.gov/provider-data/sites/default/files/resources/6af7c44d77436e5a1caac3ce39a83fe9_1790013956/Complications_and_Deaths-Hospital.csv
- https://data.cms.gov/provider-data/sites/default/files/resources/3b76abb9b6f610373563b5ef08bb0d81_1790468146/Medical-Equipment-Suppliers.csv
- https://data.cms.gov/provider-data/sites/default/files/resources/6a91b2a437ea47e61cd34c975dd54729_1790013959/PCH_Complications_Unplanned_Hospital_Visits_NATIONAL.csv
- https://data.cms.gov/provider-data/sites/default/files/resources/247bb4364e310313773d74ccb0fb3231_1790013957/Complications_and_Deaths-State.csv
- https://data.cms.gov/provider-data/sites/default/files/resources/aba37eca11edcd4272afff9e6dc78bda_1790013957/Complications_and_Deaths-National.csv
- https://data.cms.gov/provider-data/sites/default/files/resources/bc386a698d7a9b8d09bf37a73371a899_1790013958/PCH_Complications_Unplanned_Hospital_Visits_HOSPITAL.csv
| Type | Count |
|---|---|
| PDF documents | 376 |
| Spreadsheets | 221 |
| Archives (zip, etc.) | 19 |
| Iframes | 8 |
| Word/text documents | 1 |
| Embedded media players | 1 |