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data.healthcare.gov: week 2026-W38

This is the 2026-W38 ISO-week report (2113 pages fetched, 1432 unique pages audited by axe/Alfa). Generated 2026-09-30. Compared against 2026-W37 (2100 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: 6 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
2
Fixed this week
0
Regressed this week
2

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 723 — 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 723 — 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 723 — 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 622 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)
Headings are structured hierarchically (WCAG criterion undetermined) (rule↗) Moderate 5 — Use headings in a logical, non-skipping order. pages (CSV)
Accessible name of link or button matches visible label (WCAG 2.5.3) (rule↗) Moderate 4 Without vision, Without speech See remediation guidance: https://alfa.siteimprove.com/rules/sia-r14 pages (CSV)

Progress

Open findings by severity over 15 weeks (lower is better)
Serious Moderate Minor W24W31W38170
Open findings by severity, by week
WeekSeriousModerateMinor
2026-W243171
2026-W253101
2026-W263161
2026-W273161
2026-W283131
2026-W293121
2026-W303151
2026-W313121
2026-W323111
2026-W333151
2026-W343171
2026-W353141
2026-W363171
2026-W373131
2026-W383161

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 20 issue type(s)

Median axe violations / page
0
Pages with axe violations
16 of 1432 CSV
Median Alfa failures / page
41
Pages with Alfa failures
723 of 723 CSV
Unique pages audited
1432
Lighthouse performance (median)
29/100 136 sampled details
Lighthouse SEO (median)
100/100
Lighthouse best practices (median)
100/100
Lighthouse agentic (median)
54/100
Words per page (median)
1509 main content, nav excluded
Reading ease (median)
35 66 prose pages details
Reading grade (median)
16
Misspellings
25+ distinct details
Broken links
17 details
Median page weight
2.8 MB -69 KB better
Median requests per page
94
Estimated energy per page (mean)
0.8804 Wh

Note: page counts differ between weeks (2100 → 2113). Prefer the "pages affected" columns over raw instance counts when comparing.

Scan coverage this week (2113 pages · 1432 succeeded of 1446 attempted)
Pages each engine ran on, per the configured weekly sampling rates.
EnginePagesCoverage
axe143268%
resources143268%
alfa72334%
standards71934%
plain-language70033%
deprecated-html1587%
sustainability1497%
tech1407%
lighthouse1366%
security1306%

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

Changes since 2026-W37 5 change(s)

axe-core

  • New: landmark-main-is-top-level appeared this week.
  • New: landmark-no-duplicate-main appeared this week.

Alfa

  • New: sia-r78 appeared this week.
  • New: sia-r68 appeared this week.
  • Resolved: sia-r60 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 (7)

356 distinct resources, by type.
TypeCount
Spreadsheets200
PDF documents79
Archives (zip, etc.)75
Iframes2