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data.medicaid.gov: week 2026-W34

This is the 2026-W34 ISO-week report (3220 pages fetched, 2542 unique pages audited by axe/Alfa). Generated 2026-08-21. Compared against 2026-W33 (3072 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).

Change this week

New this week
1
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 1293 — 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 1293 — 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 1078 Without vision, Limited vision See remediation guidance: https://alfa.siteimprove.com/rules/sia-r17 pages (CSV)
<ul> and <ol> must only directly contain <li>, <script> or <template> elements (WCAG 1.3.1) (rule↗) Serious 44 Without vision, Limited vision Use <ul>/<ol> with only <li> children for lists; don't fake lists with <div>s. pages (CSV)
Page should contain a level-one heading (WCAG criterion undetermined) (rule↗) Moderate 56 — See remediation guidance: https://dequeuniversity.com/rules/axe/4.12/page-has-heading-one?application=axeAPI pages (CSV)
Presentational children of an element are not focusable (WCAG 1.3.1) (rule↗) Moderate 34 Without vision, Limited vision See remediation guidance: https://alfa.siteimprove.com/rules/sia-r68 pages (CSV)
Form field label is visible (WCAG criterion undetermined) (rule↗) Moderate 29 — See remediation guidance: https://alfa.siteimprove.com/rules/sia-r61 pages (CSV)
Table header has scope (WCAG criterion undetermined) (rule↗) Moderate 22 — See remediation guidance: https://alfa.siteimprove.com/rules/sia-r78 pages (CSV)

Progress

Open findings by severity over 11 weeks (lower is better)
Serious Moderate W24W29W34100
Open findings by severity, by week
WeekSeriousModerate
2026-W24210
2026-W25210
2026-W26210
2026-W27210
2026-W2829
2026-W29210
2026-W30210
2026-W31210
2026-W32210
2026-W33210
2026-W3439

Fixed this week

This week at a glance 12 issue type(s)

Median axe violations / page
0
Pages with axe violations
109 of 2542
Median Alfa failures / page
37
Pages with Alfa failures
1293 of 1293
Unique pages audited
2542
Lighthouse performance (median)
16/100 261 sampled details
Lighthouse SEO (median)
100/100
Lighthouse best practices (median)
100/100
Lighthouse agentic (median)
51/100
Words per page (median)
1676 main content, nav excluded
Reading ease (median)
27.2 221 prose pages
Reading grade (median)
17.1
Misspellings
25+ distinct details
Broken links
32 details
Median page weight
2.1 MB +2 KB worse
Median requests per page
26
Estimated energy per page (mean)
0.6892 Wh

Note: page counts differ between weeks (3072 → 3220). Prefer the "pages affected" columns over raw instance counts when comparing.

Scan coverage this week (3220 pages · 2778 succeeded of 2781 attempted)
Pages each engine ran on, per the configured weekly sampling rates.
EnginePagesCoverage
axe254279%
resources254279%
alfa129340%
standards126839%
plain-language126539%
tech2678%
lighthouse2618%
deprecated-html2608%
security2578%
sustainability2488%

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

Changes since 2026-W33 2 change(s)

axe-core

No rule-level changes.

Alfa

  • Resolved: sia-r43 no longer fails on any scanned page.
  • sia-r17 spread: 1041 → 1078 pages affected (rate: 87% → 83% 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 (14)

515 distinct resources, by type.
TypeCount
Spreadsheets511
PDF documents4