data.medicaid.gov: week 2026-W26

This is the 2026-W26 ISO-week report (2935 pages fetched, 2267 unique pages audited by axe/Alfa). Generated 2026-07-13. Compared against 2026-W25 (2927 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: 2 finding type(s).

New this week: 0
Fixed this week: 0
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.
Issue	Severity	Pages	Who it affects	How to fix	Evidence
Landmarks should have a unique role or role/label/title (i.e. accessible name) c (WCAG criterion undetermined) (rule↗)	Serious	2267	—	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)
Text has minimum contrast ratio of 4.5:1 (WCAG 1.4.8) (rule↗)	Moderate	1146	—	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	1146	—	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	1003	Without vision, Limited vision	See remediation guidance: https://alfa.siteimprove.com/rules/sia-r17	pages (CSV)
Page should contain a level-one heading (WCAG criterion undetermined) (rule↗)	Moderate	82	—	See remediation guidance: https://dequeuniversity.com/rules/axe/4.12/page-has-heading-one?application=axeAPI	pages (CSV)
Form field label is visible (WCAG criterion undetermined) (rule↗)	Moderate	49	—	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	8	Without vision, Limited vision	Use <ul>/<ol> with only <li> children for lists; don't fake lists with <div>s.	pages (CSV)
Accessible name of link or button matches visible label (WCAG 2.5.3) (rule↗)	Moderate	8	Without vision, Without speech	See remediation guidance: https://alfa.siteimprove.com/rules/sia-r14	pages (CSV)

Progress

✓ 3 week(s) with no Critical findings
✓ 3 week(s) with no Minor findings

Open findings by severity over 3 weeks (lower is better)

Open findings by severity, by week
Week	Serious	Moderate
2026-W24	3	9
2026-W25	3	9
2026-W26	3	9

This week at a glance 12 issue type(s)

Median axe violations / page: 1
Pages with axe violations: 2267 of 2267
Median Alfa failures / page: 40
Pages with Alfa failures: 1146 of 1146
Unique pages audited: 2267
Lighthouse performance (median): 12/100 238 sampled details
Lighthouse SEO (median): 100/100
Lighthouse best practices (median): 100/100
Lighthouse agentic (median): 53/100
Words per page (median): 1815 main content, nav excluded
Reading ease (median): 29 197 prose pages
Reading grade (median): 17.2
Misspellings: 25+ distinct details
Broken links: 30 details
Median page weight: 2.1 MB no change
Median requests per page: 26
Estimated energy per page (mean): 0.6698 Wh

Note: page counts differ between weeks (2927 → 2935). Prefer the "pages affected" columns over raw instance counts when comparing.

Scan coverage this week (2935 pages · 2393 succeeded of 2396 attempted)

Pages each engine ran on, per the configured weekly sampling rates.
Engine	Pages	Coverage
axe	2267	77%
resources	2267	77%
alfa	1146	39%
plain-language	1144	39%
standards	1144	39%
lighthouse	238	8%
sustainability	228	8%
tech	211	7%
deprecated-html	201	7%
security	193	7%

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

Changes since 2026-W25 0 change(s)

axe-core

No rule-level changes.

Alfa