nih.gov: week 2026-W36
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- New this week
- 0
- Fixed this week
- 0
- Regressed this week
- 2
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| Issue | Severity | Pages | Who it affects | How to fix | Evidence |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Links must be distinguishable without relying on color (WCAG 1.4.1) (rule↗) | Serious | 22 | 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↗) | Moderate | 22 | — | 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↗) | Moderate | 17 | — | Use heading levels in order (h1 → h2 → h3) without skipping; structure, not size. | pages (CSV) |
| Landmarks should have a unique role or role/label/title (i.e. accessible name) c (WCAG criterion undetermined) (rule↗) | Moderate | 11 | — | 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 enhanced contrast (WCAG 1.4.6) (rule↗) | Moderate | 9 | — | 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 | 9 | — | 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 | 9 | — | See remediation guidance: https://alfa.siteimprove.com/rules/sia-r111 | pages (CSV) |
| aria attribute is permitted for element role (WCAG criterion undetermined) (rule↗) | Moderate | 9 | — | Only use ARIA states/properties that are allowed on this element/role. | pages (CSV) |
Progress
| Week | Critical | Serious | Moderate | Minor |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-W25 | 0 | 1 | 12 | 1 |
| 2026-W26 | 0 | 1 | 8 | 0 |
| 2026-W27 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 0 |
| 2026-W28 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 |
| 2026-W29 | 3 | 6 | 23 | 3 |
| 2026-W30 | 3 | 6 | 23 | 4 |
| 2026-W31 | 3 | 6 | 25 | 4 |
| 2026-W32 | 3 | 6 | 23 | 4 |
| 2026-W33 | 0 | 2 | 12 | 1 |
| 2026-W34 | 1 | 2 | 14 | 1 |
| 2026-W35 | 1 | 2 | 14 | 1 |
| 2026-W36 | 1 | 1 | 14 | 1 |
Dropped from this week's sample
This week at a glance 17 issue type(s)
- Median axe violations / page
- 8
- Pages with axe violations
- 22 of 22
- Median Alfa failures / page
- 95
- Pages with Alfa failures
- 9 of 9
- Unique pages audited
- 22
- Lighthouse performance (median)
- 30/100 details
- Lighthouse SEO (median)
- 100/100
- Lighthouse best practices (median)
- 77/100
- Lighthouse agentic (median)
- 56/100
- Words per page (median)
- 751
- Reading ease (median)
- 43
- Reading grade (median)
- 13
- Misspellings
- 25+ distinct details
- Broken links
- 26 details
- Median page weight
- 60 KB -3 KB better
- Median requests per page
- 6
- Estimated energy per page (mean)
- 0.0195 Wh
Scan coverage this week (3333 pages · 25 succeeded of 3789 attempted)
| Engine | Pages | Coverage |
|---|---|---|
| sustainability | 352 | 11% |
| axe | 22 | 1% |
| resources | 22 | 1% |
| standards | 13 | 0% |
| plain-language | 12 | 0% |
| alfa | 9 | 0% |
| deprecated-html | 4 | 0% |
| security | 2 | 0% |
| tech | 2 | 0% |
| lighthouse | 1 | 0% |
Changes since 2026-W35 10 change(s)
axe-core
- New: aria-allowed-attr appeared this week.
- Resolved: image-alt no longer fails on any scanned page.
- Resolved: list no longer fails on any scanned page.
- heading-order spread: 14 → 17 pages affected (rate: 70% → 77% of pages scanned).
- landmark-unique shrank: 11 → 11 pages affected (rate: 55% → 50% of pages scanned).
- empty-heading spread: 1 → 4 pages affected (rate: 5% → 18% of pages scanned).
Alfa
- Resolved: sia-r2 no longer fails on any scanned page.
- sia-r53 shrank: 8 → 7 pages affected (rate: 100% → 78% of pages scanned).
- sia-r85 spread: 1 → 2 pages affected (rate: 13% → 22% of pages scanned).
- sia-r64 spread: 1 → 2 pages affected (rate: 13% → 22% of pages scanned).
Embedded & linked resources
No new resources first seen this week.
| Type | Count |
|---|---|
| Images | 15 |
| PDF documents | 8 |