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data.medicaid.gov: week 2026-W28

This is the 2026-W28 ISO-week report (2969 pages fetched, 2298 unique pages audited by axe/Alfa). Generated 2026-07-24. Compared against 2026-W27 (2958 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
1
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 minimum contrast ratio of 4.5:1 (WCAG 1.4.8) (rule↗) Moderate 1203 — 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 1203 — 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 1054 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 87 — 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 44 — 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)
Landmarks should have a unique role or role/label/title (i.e. accessible name) c (WCAG criterion undetermined) (rule↗) Moderate 6 — 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)
Presentational children of an element are not focusable (WCAG 1.3.1) (rule↗) Moderate 5 Without vision, Limited vision See remediation guidance: https://alfa.siteimprove.com/rules/sia-r68 pages (CSV)

Progress

Open findings by severity over 5 weeks (lower is better)
Serious Moderate W24W26W28100

Fixed this week

This week at a glance 11 issue type(s)
Median axe violations / page
0
Pages with axe violations
103 of 2298
Median Alfa failures / page
37
Pages with Alfa failures
1203 of 1203
Unique pages audited
2298
Lighthouse performance (median)
12/100 229 sampled details
Lighthouse SEO (median)
100/100
Lighthouse best practices (median)
100/100
Lighthouse agentic (median)
53/100
Words per page (median)
1783 main content, nav excluded
Reading ease (median)
26 219 prose pages
Reading grade (median)
17.9
Misspellings
25+ distinct details
Broken links
31 details
Median page weight
2.1 MB +1 KB worse
Median requests per page
26
Estimated energy per page (mean)
0.6533 Wh

Note: page counts differ between weeks (2958 → 2969). Prefer the "pages affected" columns over raw instance counts when comparing.

Scan coverage this week (2969 pages · 2298 succeeded of 2301 attempted)
Pages each engine ran on, per the configured weekly sampling rates.
EnginePagesCoverage
axe229877%
resources229877%
alfa120341%
standards116539%
plain-language115839%
security2338%
lighthouse2298%
tech2288%
deprecated-html2187%
sustainability2117%

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

Changes since 2026-W27 2 change(s)

axe-core

  • landmark-unique shrank: 1258 → 6 pages affected (rate: 55% → 0% of pages scanned).

Alfa

  • Resolved: sia-r43 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 (6)

502 distinct resources, by type.
TypeCount
Spreadsheets498
PDF documents4