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data.healthcare.gov: week 2026-W26

This is the 2026-W26 ISO-week report (1895 pages fetched, 1343 unique pages audited by axe/Alfa). Generated 2026-07-13. Compared against 2026-W25 (1865 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: 8 required finding type(s) (handling: review). Aspirational queue: 0 finding type(s). Advisory queue: 0 finding type(s). Unmapped review queue: 5 finding type(s).

Change this week

New this week
0
Fixed this week
0
Regressed this week
6

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 653 — 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 653 — 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 653 — 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 582 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)
Presentational children of an element are not focusable (WCAG 1.3.1) (rule↗) Moderate 3 Without vision, Limited vision See remediation guidance: https://alfa.siteimprove.com/rules/sia-r68 pages (CSV)

Progress

Open findings by severity over 3 weeks (lower is better)
Serious Moderate Minor W24W25W26170
Open findings by severity, by week
WeekSeriousModerateMinor
2026-W243171
2026-W253101
2026-W263161

This week at a glance 20 issue type(s)

Median axe violations / page
0
Pages with axe violations
17 of 1343
Median Alfa failures / page
41
Pages with Alfa failures
653 of 653
Unique pages audited
1343
Lighthouse performance (median)
7/100 153 sampled details
Lighthouse SEO (median)
100/100
Lighthouse best practices (median)
100/100
Lighthouse agentic (median)
52/100
Words per page (median)
1529 main content, nav excluded
Reading ease (median)
39 61 prose pages
Reading grade (median)
14.9
Misspellings
25+ distinct details
Broken links
17 details
Median page weight
2.7 MB +1 KB worse
Median requests per page
94
Estimated energy per page (mean)
0.8443 Wh

Note: page counts differ between weeks (1865 → 1895). Prefer the "pages affected" columns over raw instance counts when comparing.

Scan coverage this week (1895 pages · 1344 succeeded of 1356 attempted)
Pages each engine ran on, per the configured weekly sampling rates.
EnginePagesCoverage
axe134371%
resources134371%
standards67736%
plain-language65735%
alfa65334%
lighthouse1538%
tech1478%
deprecated-html1468%
security1448%
sustainability1317%

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

Changes since 2026-W25 3 change(s)

axe-core

No rule-level changes.

Alfa

  • New: sia-r18 appeared this week.
  • New: sia-r78 appeared this week.
  • New: sia-r68 appeared this week.

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 (10)

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