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openpaymentsdata.cms.gov: week 2026-W39

This is the 2026-W39 ISO-week report (327 pages fetched, 223 unique pages audited by axe/Alfa). Generated 2026-09-30. Compared against 2026-W38 (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: 2 finding type(s).

New this week
0
Fixed this week
0
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 enhanced contrast (WCAG 1.4.6) (rule↗) Moderate 120 — 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 120 — 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 120 — See remediation guidance: https://alfa.siteimprove.com/rules/sia-r111 pages (CSV)
Form field label is visible (WCAG criterion undetermined) (rule↗) Moderate 120 — See remediation guidance: https://alfa.siteimprove.com/rules/sia-r61 pages (CSV)
Text has sufficient color contrast (Enhanced) (WCAG 1.4.3) (rule↗) Moderate 120 Limited vision, Without color perception Increase text contrast to meet WCAG AA (4.5:1, or 3:1 for large text). 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 74 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 32 Without vision, Limited vision Give the button an accessible name via text, aria-label, or aria-labelledby. pages (CSV)

Progress

Open findings by severity over 16 weeks (lower is better)
Critical Serious Moderate W24W31W39120

This week at a glance 13 issue type(s)
Median axe violations / page
0
Pages with axe violations
53 of 223 CSV
Median Alfa failures / page
73
Pages with Alfa failures
120 of 120 CSV
Unique pages audited
223
Words per page (median)
7005 main content, nav excluded
Reading ease (median)
15 4 prose pages details
Reading grade (median)
18
Misspellings
25+ distinct details
Broken links
7 details
Median page weight
2.8 MB -8 KB better
Median requests per page
62
Estimated energy per page (mean)
0.8898 Wh
Scan coverage this week (327 pages · 320 succeeded of 356 attempted)
Pages each engine ran on, per the configured weekly sampling rates.
EnginePagesCoverage
axe22368%
resources22368%
alfa12037%
plain-language11736%
standards10733%
tech3511%
security268%
sustainability268%
deprecated-html206%

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

Changes since 2026-W38 2 change(s)

axe-core

No rule-level changes.

Alfa

  • sia-r17 spread: 64 → 74 pages affected (rate: 65% → 62% of pages scanned).
  • sia-r12 spread: 21 → 32 pages affected (rate: 21% → 27% 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