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openpaymentsdata.cms.gov: week 2026-W33

This is the 2026-W33 ISO-week report (327 pages fetched, 223 unique pages audited by axe/Alfa). Generated 2026-08-10. Compared against 2026-W32 (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: 4 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
1

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 113 — 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 113 — See remediation guidance: https://alfa.siteimprove.com/rules/sia-r111 pages (CSV)
Form field label is visible (WCAG criterion undetermined) (rule↗) Moderate 113 — 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 76 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 26 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)
Table header has scope (WCAG criterion undetermined) (rule↗) Moderate 1 — See remediation guidance: https://alfa.siteimprove.com/rules/sia-r78 pages (CSV)

Progress

Open findings by severity over 10 weeks (lower is better)
Critical Serious Moderate W24W28W3370

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
113 of 113
Unique pages audited
223
Words per page (median)
4396 main content, nav excluded
Reading ease (median)
15.6 7 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)
0.8515 Wh
Scan coverage this week (327 pages · 427 succeeded of 476 attempted)
Pages each engine ran on, per the configured weekly sampling rates.
EnginePagesCoverage
axe22368%
resources22368%
plain-language11535%
alfa11335%
standards10231%
security268%
deprecated-html237%
tech227%
sustainability206%

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

Changes since 2026-W32 2 change(s)

axe-core

No rule-level changes.

Alfa

  • New: sia-r78 appeared this week.
  • Resolved: sia-r68 no longer fails on any scanned page.

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