vital-scans open quality ledger

data.healthcare.gov: week 2026-W40

This is the 2026-W40 ISO-week report (2192 pages fetched, 1466 unique pages audited by axe/Alfa). Generated 2026-09-30. Compared against 2026-W39 (2155 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: 9 required finding type(s) (handling: review). Aspirational queue: 0 finding type(s). Advisory queue: 0 finding type(s). Unmapped review queue: 3 finding type(s).

Change this week

New this week
1
Fixed this week
2
Regressed this week
0

Over the whole history of this site, 7072 unique pages have been scanned at least once; 734 have known accessibility issues. 734 of them were re-checked this ISO week. Download full data (JSON).

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 minimum contrast ratio of 4.5:1 (WCAG 1.4.8) (rule↗) Moderate 725 — 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 725 — 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 623 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)
Form field label is visible (WCAG criterion undetermined) (rule↗) Moderate 4 — See remediation guidance: https://alfa.siteimprove.com/rules/sia-r61 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)
Headings are structured hierarchically (WCAG criterion undetermined) (rule↗) Moderate 3 — Use headings in a logical, non-skipping order. pages (CSV)

Progress

Open findings by severity over 17 weeks (lower is better)
Serious Moderate Minor W24W32W40190
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
2026-W393191
2026-W403171

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 21 issue type(s)

Median axe violations / page
0
Pages with axe violations
16 of 1466 CSV
Median Alfa failures / page
37
Pages with Alfa failures
725 of 725 CSV
Unique pages audited
1466
Lighthouse performance (median)
15/100 147 sampled details
Lighthouse SEO (median)
100/100
Lighthouse best practices (median)
100/100
Lighthouse agentic (median)
53/100
Words per page (median)
1508 main content, nav excluded
Reading ease (median)
38.2 67 prose pages details
Reading grade (median)
15.5
Misspellings
25+ distinct details
Broken links
16 details
Median page weight
2.8 MB -22 KB better
Median requests per page
33
Estimated energy per page (mean)
0.871 Wh

Note: page counts differ between weeks (2155 → 2192). Prefer the "pages affected" columns over raw instance counts when comparing.

Scan coverage this week (2192 pages · 1466 succeeded of 1480 attempted)
Pages each engine ran on, per the configured weekly sampling rates.
EnginePagesCoverage
axe146667%
resources146667%
plain-language76135%
standards74534%
alfa72533%
security1658%
tech1497%
lighthouse1477%
sustainability1467%
deprecated-html1266%

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

Changes since 2026-W39 5 change(s)

axe-core

No rule-level changes.

Alfa

  • New: sia-r42 appeared this week.
  • Resolved: sia-r79 no longer fails on any scanned page.
  • Resolved: sia-r78 no longer fails on any scanned page.
  • Resolved: sia-r60 no longer fails on any scanned page.
  • sia-r66 shrank: 582 → 1 pages affected (rate: 77% → 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 (11)

362 distinct resources, by type.
TypeCount
Spreadsheets206
PDF documents79
Archives (zip, etc.)75
Iframes2