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data.healthcare.gov: week 2026-W25

This is the 2026-W25 ISO-week report (1865 pages fetched, 1332 unique pages audited by axe/Alfa). Generated 2026-07-12. Compared against 2026-W24 (1855 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: 5 required finding type(s) (handling: review). Aspirational queue: 0 finding type(s). Advisory queue: 0 finding type(s). Unmapped review queue: 2 finding type(s).

New this week
0
Fixed this week
6
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
Text has enhanced contrast (WCAG 1.4.6) (rule↗) Moderate 377 — Increase text contrast to meet WCAG AAA (7:1). pages (CSV)
Text has minimum contrast ratio of 4.5:1 (WCAG 1.4.8) (rule↗) Moderate 377 — 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 377 — See remediation guidance: https://alfa.siteimprove.com/rules/sia-r111 pages (CSV)
aria-hidden element does not contain focusable elements (WCAG 4.1.2) (rule↗) Moderate 340 Without vision, Limited vision See remediation guidance: https://alfa.siteimprove.com/rules/sia-r17 pages (CSV)
Landmarks should have a unique role or role/label/title (i.e. accessible name) c (WCAG criterion undetermined) (rule↗) Moderate 7 — When a landmark role/type repeats (e.g. two <nav>s), give each a distinct accessible name with aria-label or aria-labelledby (e.g. "Primary" and "Footer" navigation) so screen-reader users can tell them apart. pages (CSV)
Heading levels should only increase by one (WCAG criterion undetermined) (rule↗) Moderate 6 — Use heading levels in order (h1 → h2 → h3) without skipping; structure, not size. pages (CSV)
<ul> and <ol> must only directly contain <li>, <script> or <template> elements (WCAG 1.3.1) (rule↗) Serious 2 Without vision, Limited vision Use <ul>/<ol> with only <li> children for lists; don't fake lists with <div>s. pages (CSV)
ARIA input fields must have an accessible name (WCAG 4.1.2) (rule↗) Serious 1 Without vision, Limited vision See remediation guidance: https://dequeuniversity.com/rules/axe/4.12/aria-input-field-name?application=axeAPI pages (CSV)

Progress

Open findings by severity over 2 weeks (lower is better)
Serious Moderate Minor W24W25170

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 14 issue type(s)
Median axe violations / page
0
Pages with axe violations
17 of 1332
Median Alfa failures / page
41
Pages with Alfa failures
377 of 377
Unique pages audited
1332
Lighthouse performance (median)
6/100 223 sampled details
Lighthouse SEO (median)
100/100
Lighthouse best practices (median)
100/100
Words per page (median)
1595 main content, nav excluded
Reading ease (median)
41 62 prose pages
Reading grade (median)
15
Misspellings
25+ distinct details
Broken links
16 details
Median page weight
2.7 MB no change
Median requests per page
94
Estimated energy per page (mean)
0.855 Wh

Note: page counts differ between weeks (1855 → 1865). Prefer the "pages affected" columns over raw instance counts when comparing.

Scan coverage this week (1865 pages)
Pages each engine ran on, per the configured weekly sampling rates.
EnginePagesCoverage
axe133271%
resources133271%
sustainability83345%
deprecated-html80043%
plain-language64034%
alfa37720%
standards32217%
lighthouse22312%
security623%

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

Changes since 2026-W24 7 change(s)

axe-core

No rule-level changes.

Alfa

  • Resolved: sia-r18 no longer fails on any scanned page.
  • Resolved: sia-r79 no longer fails on any scanned page.
  • Resolved: sia-r8 no longer fails on any scanned page.
  • Resolved: sia-r68 no longer fails on any scanned page.
  • Resolved: sia-r113 no longer fails on any scanned page.
  • Resolved: sia-r60 no longer fails on any scanned page.
  • Resolved: sia-r78 no longer fails on any scanned page.

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 (80)

357 distinct resources, by type.
TypeCount
Spreadsheets203
PDF documents77
Archives (zip, etc.)75
Iframes2