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openpaymentsdata.cms.gov: week 2026-W26

This is the 2026-W26 ISO-week report (237 pages fetched, 206 unique pages audited by axe/Alfa). Generated 2026-07-13. Compared against 2026-W25 (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).

Change this week

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 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 99 — 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 99 — See remediation guidance: https://alfa.siteimprove.com/rules/sia-r111 pages (CSV)
Form field label is visible (WCAG criterion undetermined) (rule↗) Moderate 99 — See remediation guidance: https://alfa.siteimprove.com/rules/sia-r61 pages (CSV)
Scrolling content can be accessed by keyboard (WCAG criterion undetermined) (rule↗) Moderate 99 — 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 66 Without vision, Limited vision See remediation guidance: https://alfa.siteimprove.com/rules/sia-r17 pages (CSV)

Progress

Open findings by severity over 3 weeks (lower is better)
Serious Moderate W24W25W2660
Open findings by severity, by week
WeekSeriousModerate
2026-W2416
2026-W2515
2026-W2615

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
99 of 99
Unique pages audited
206
Words per page (median)
7271 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 -1 KB better
Median requests per page
42
Estimated energy per page (mean)
0.8467 Wh
Scan coverage this week (237 pages · 310 succeeded of 322 attempted)
Pages each engine ran on, per the configured weekly sampling rates.
EnginePagesCoverage
axe20687%
resources20687%
standards10745%
plain-language10343%
alfa9942%
deprecated-html3214%
sustainability229%
security219%
tech208%

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

Changes since 2026-W25 0 change(s)

axe-core

No rule-level changes.

Alfa

No rule-level changes.

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.

No new resources first seen this week.

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