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openpaymentsdata.cms.gov: week 2026-W25

This is the 2026-W25 ISO-week report (237 pages fetched, 206 unique pages audited by axe/Alfa). Generated 2026-07-12. Compared against 2026-W24 (237 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: 1 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 6 issues to prioritize this week.
IssueSeverityPagesWho it affectsHow to fixEvidence
All page content should be contained by landmarks (WCAG criterion undetermined) (rule↗) Serious 206 — Wrap all page content in landmarks (header, nav, main, footer) so users can navigate by region. pages (CSV)
Text has minimum contrast ratio of 4.5:1 (WCAG 1.4.8) (rule↗) Moderate 64 — 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 64 — See remediation guidance: https://alfa.siteimprove.com/rules/sia-r111 pages (CSV)
Form field label is visible (WCAG criterion undetermined) (rule↗) Moderate 64 — See remediation guidance: https://alfa.siteimprove.com/rules/sia-r61 pages (CSV)
Scrolling content can be accessed by keyboard (WCAG criterion undetermined) (rule↗) Moderate 64 — See remediation guidance: https://alfa.siteimprove.com/rules/sia-r57 pages (CSV)
aria-hidden element does not contain focusable elements (WCAG 4.1.2) (rule↗) Moderate 43 Without vision, Limited vision See remediation guidance: https://alfa.siteimprove.com/rules/sia-r17 pages (CSV)

Progress

Open findings by severity over 2 weeks (lower is better)
Serious Moderate W24W2560

Fixed this week

This week at a glance 6 issue type(s)
Median axe violations / page
3
Pages with axe violations
206 of 206
Median Alfa failures / page
44
Pages with Alfa failures
64 of 64
Unique pages audited
206
Lighthouse performance (median)
20/100 20 sampled details
Lighthouse SEO (median)
100/100
Lighthouse best practices (median)
100/100
Words per page (median)
4382 main content, nav excluded
Reading ease (median)
12.6 3 prose pages
Reading grade (median)
18
Misspellings
25+ distinct details
Broken links
7 details
Median page weight
2.7 MB no change
Median requests per page
42
Estimated energy per page (mean)
0.8516 Wh
Scan coverage this week (237 pages)
Pages each engine ran on, per the configured weekly sampling rates.
EnginePagesCoverage
axe20687%
deprecated-html20687%
resources20687%
sustainability20687%
plain-language8034%
alfa6427%
lighthouse208%

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

Changes since 2026-W24 2 change(s)

axe-core

No rule-level changes.

Alfa

  • Resolved: sia-r78 no longer fails on any scanned page.
  • sia-r17 shrank: 53 → 43 pages affected (rate: 45% → 67% 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 (24)

24 distinct resources, by type.
TypeCount
Spreadsheets22
PDF documents1
Embedded media players1