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data.medicaid.gov: week 2026-W35

This is the 2026-W35 ISO-week report (3239 pages fetched, 2560 unique pages audited by axe/Alfa). Generated 2026-08-27. Compared against 2026-W34 (3220 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: 8 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
1
Fixed this week
1
Regressed this week
1

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 1281 — 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 1281 — 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 1096 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 62 Without vision, Limited vision Use <ul>/<ol> with only <li> children for lists; don't fake lists with <div>s. pages (CSV)
Presentational children of an element are not focusable (WCAG 1.3.1) (rule↗) Moderate 43 Without vision, Limited vision See remediation guidance: https://alfa.siteimprove.com/rules/sia-r68 pages (CSV)
Table header has scope (WCAG criterion undetermined) (rule↗) Moderate 32 — See remediation guidance: https://alfa.siteimprove.com/rules/sia-r78 pages (CSV)
Accessible name of link or button matches visible label (WCAG 2.5.3) (rule↗) Moderate 9 Without vision, Without speech See remediation guidance: https://alfa.siteimprove.com/rules/sia-r14 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)

Progress

Open findings by severity over 12 weeks (lower is better)
Serious Moderate W24W29W35100

Fixed this week

This week at a glance 13 issue type(s)
Median axe violations / page
0
Pages with axe violations
71 of 2560
Median Alfa failures / page
37
Pages with Alfa failures
1281 of 1281
Unique pages audited
2560
Lighthouse performance (median)
16/100 257 sampled details
Lighthouse SEO (median)
100/100
Lighthouse best practices (median)
100/100
Lighthouse agentic (median)
53/100
Words per page (median)
1738 main content, nav excluded
Reading ease (median)
27.5 217 prose pages
Reading grade (median)
17.4
Misspellings
25+ distinct details
Broken links
26 details
Median page weight
2.1 MB +17 KB worse
Median requests per page
26
Estimated energy per page (mean)
0.661 Wh

Note: page counts differ between weeks (3220 → 3239). Prefer the "pages affected" columns over raw instance counts when comparing.

Scan coverage this week (3239 pages · 2786 succeeded of 2789 attempted)
Pages each engine ran on, per the configured weekly sampling rates.
EnginePagesCoverage
axe256079%
resources256079%
plain-language131341%
standards130740%
alfa128140%
sustainability2658%
deprecated-html2658%
tech2638%
security2588%
lighthouse2578%

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

Changes since 2026-W34 5 change(s)

axe-core

  • Resolved: page-has-heading-one no longer fails on any scanned page.

Alfa

  • New: sia-r1 appeared this week.
  • New: sia-r43 appeared this week.
  • sia-r17 spread: 1078 → 1096 pages affected (rate: 83% → 86% of pages scanned).
  • sia-r61 shrank: 29 → 3 pages affected (rate: 2% → 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 (27)

527 distinct resources, by type.
TypeCount
Spreadsheets523
PDF documents4