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openpaymentsdata.cms.gov: week 2026-W32

This is the 2026-W32 ISO-week report (327 pages fetched, 223 unique pages audited by axe/Alfa). Generated 2026-08-03. Compared against 2026-W31 (327 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: 5 required finding type(s) (handling: review). Aspirational queue: 0 finding type(s). Advisory queue: 0 finding type(s). Unmapped review queue: 1 finding type(s).

Change this week

New this week
0
Fixed this week
2
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
Text has minimum contrast ratio of 4.5:1 (WCAG 1.4.8) (rule↗) Moderate 124 — 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 124 — See remediation guidance: https://alfa.siteimprove.com/rules/sia-r111 pages (CSV)
Form field label is visible (WCAG criterion undetermined) (rule↗) Moderate 124 — See remediation guidance: https://alfa.siteimprove.com/rules/sia-r61 pages (CSV)
Buttons must have discernible text (WCAG 4.1.2) (rule↗) Critical 51 Without vision, Limited vision Give the button an accessible name via its text content, aria-label, or aria-labelledby. pages (CSV)
aria-hidden element does not contain focusable elements (WCAG 4.1.2) (rule↗) Moderate 81 Without vision, Limited vision See remediation guidance: https://alfa.siteimprove.com/rules/sia-r17 pages (CSV)
Button has accessible name (WCAG 4.1.2) (rule↗) Moderate 28 Without vision, Limited vision Give the button an accessible name via text, aria-label, or aria-labelledby. pages (CSV)
<ul> and <ol> must only directly contain <li>, <script> or <template> elements (WCAG 1.3.1) (rule↗) Serious 1 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 1 Without vision, Limited vision See remediation guidance: https://alfa.siteimprove.com/rules/sia-r68 pages (CSV)

Progress

Open findings by severity over 9 weeks (lower is better)
Critical Serious Moderate W24W28W3270
Open findings by severity, by week
WeekCriticalSeriousModerate
2026-W24016
2026-W25015
2026-W26015
2026-W27015
2026-W28127
2026-W29126
2026-W30126
2026-W31127
2026-W32116

Fixed this week

This week at a glance 8 issue type(s)

Median axe violations / page
0
Pages with axe violations
52 of 223
Median Alfa failures / page
40
Pages with Alfa failures
124 of 124
Unique pages audited
223
Words per page (median)
4372 main content, nav excluded
Reading ease (median)
16 10 prose pages
Reading grade (median)
18
Misspellings
25+ distinct details
Broken links
7 details
Median page weight
2.7 MB +2 KB worse
Median requests per page
42
Estimated energy per page (mean)
0.8537 Wh
Scan coverage this week (327 pages · 324 succeeded of 360 attempted)
Pages each engine ran on, per the configured weekly sampling rates.
EnginePagesCoverage
axe22368%
resources22368%
alfa12438%
plain-language11836%
standards11435%
sustainability278%
security258%
tech258%
deprecated-html206%

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

Changes since 2026-W31 4 change(s)

axe-core

  • Resolved: region no longer fails on any scanned page.

Alfa

  • Resolved: sia-r57 no longer fails on any scanned page.
  • sia-r17 spread: 80 → 81 pages affected (rate: 69% → 65% of pages scanned).
  • sia-r12 spread: 21 → 28 pages affected (rate: 18% → 23% 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.

No new resources first seen this week.

23 distinct resources, by type.
TypeCount
Spreadsheets22
Embedded media players1