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nih.gov: week 2026-W32

This is the 2026-W32 ISO-week report (3333 pages fetched, 3144 unique pages audited by axe/Alfa). Generated 2026-08-07. Compared against 2026-W31 (3333 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: 19 required finding type(s) (handling: review). Aspirational queue: 0 finding type(s). Advisory queue: 0 finding type(s). Unmapped review queue: 6 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.
IssueSeverityPagesWho it affectsHow to fixEvidence
Links must be distinguishable without relying on color (WCAG 1.4.1) (rule↗) Critical 3143 Without color perception, Limited vision See remediation guidance: https://dequeuniversity.com/rules/axe/4.12/link-in-text-block?application=axeAPI pages (CSV)
All page content should be contained by landmarks (WCAG criterion undetermined) (rule↗) Serious 3143 — Wrap all page content in landmarks (header, nav, main, footer) so users can navigate by region. pages (CSV)
Heading levels should only increase by one (WCAG criterion undetermined) (rule↗) Serious 2337 — Use heading levels in order (h1 → h2 → h3) without skipping; structure, not size. pages (CSV)
Text has enhanced contrast (WCAG 1.4.6) (rule↗) Moderate 1582 — Increase text contrast to meet WCAG AAA (7:1). pages (CSV)
Text has minimum contrast ratio of 4.5:1 (WCAG 1.4.8) (rule↗) Moderate 1582 — 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 1582 — See remediation guidance: https://alfa.siteimprove.com/rules/sia-r111 pages (CSV)
aria attribute is permitted for element role (WCAG criterion undetermined) (rule↗) Moderate 1582 — Only use ARIA states/properties that are allowed on this element/role. pages (CSV)
Form field label is visible (WCAG criterion undetermined) (rule↗) Moderate 1582 — See remediation guidance: https://alfa.siteimprove.com/rules/sia-r61 pages (CSV)

Progress

Open findings by severity over 8 weeks (lower is better)
Critical Serious Moderate Minor W25W28W32230

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 36 issue type(s)
Median axe violations / page
8
Pages with axe violations
3144 of 3144
Median Alfa failures / page
93
Pages with Alfa failures
1582 of 1582
Unique pages audited
3144
Lighthouse performance (median)
46/100 301 sampled details
Lighthouse SEO (median)
100/100
Lighthouse best practices (median)
96/100
Lighthouse agentic (median)
58/100
Words per page (median)
734 main content, nav excluded
Reading ease (median)
43.9 1461 prose pages
Reading grade (median)
12.5
Misspellings
25+ distinct details
Broken links
526 details
Median page weight
2.0 MB +678 KB worse
Median requests per page
98
Estimated energy per page (mean)
0.593 Wh
Scan coverage this week (3333 pages · 3570 succeeded of 3802 attempted)
Pages each engine ran on, per the configured weekly sampling rates.
EnginePagesCoverage
axe314494%
resources314494%
plain-language164749%
standards159548%
alfa158247%
security34110%
sustainability34110%
lighthouse3019%
tech2949%
deprecated-html2889%

History & Trends → Severity, Lighthouse and other measures across 16 weeks.

Changes since 2026-W31 3 change(s)

axe-core

No rule-level changes.

Alfa

  • Resolved: sia-r59 no longer fails on any scanned page.
  • Resolved: sia-r87 no longer fails on any scanned page.
  • sia-r85 spread: 282 → 320 pages affected (rate: 18% → 20% 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 (17)

4367 distinct resources, by type.
TypeCount
Images1499
PDF documents1388
Spreadsheets668
Word/text documents666
Embedded media players139
Presentations6
Video files1