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www.cdc.gov: week 2026-W34

This is the 2026-W34 ISO-week report (3332 pages fetched, 2960 unique pages audited by axe/Alfa). Generated 2026-08-22. Compared against 2026-W33 (3332 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: 41 required finding type(s) (handling: review). Aspirational queue: 0 finding type(s). Advisory queue: 0 finding type(s). Unmapped review queue: 17 finding type(s).

Change this week

New this week
0
Fixed this week
0
Regressed this week
6

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
All page content should be contained by landmarks (WCAG criterion undetermined) (rule↗) Serious 2957 — Wrap all page content in landmarks (header, nav, main, footer) so users can navigate by region. pages (CSV)
Images must have alternative text (WCAG 1.1.1) (rule↗) Critical 628 Without vision, Limited vision Give every <img> a meaningful alt attribute. Use alt="" only for decorative images so screen readers skip them. pages (CSV)
<html> element must have a lang attribute (WCAG 3.1.1) (rule↗) Serious 621 Without vision, Limited cognitive, language, or learning ability Add a lang attribute to <html> (e.g. lang="en"). pages (CSV)
Heading levels should only increase by one (WCAG criterion undetermined) (rule↗) Moderate 962 — Use heading levels in order (h1 → h2 → h3) without skipping; structure, not size. pages (CSV)
Elements must meet minimum color contrast ratio thresholds (WCAG 1.4.3) (rule↗) Serious 613 Limited vision, Without color perception Increase the contrast between text and its background to at least 4.5:1 (3:1 for large text). Check both light and dark modes. pages (CSV)
Document should have one main landmark (WCAG criterion undetermined) (rule↗) Moderate 846 — Each page should have exactly one <main> landmark. pages (CSV)
Landmarks should have a unique role or role/label/title (i.e. accessible name) c (WCAG criterion undetermined) (rule↗) Moderate 814 — When a landmark role/type repeats (e.g. two <nav>s), give each a distinct accessible name with aria-label or aria-labelledby (e.g. "Primary" and "Footer" navigation) so screen-reader users can tell them apart. pages (CSV)
Target size is at least 44×44 CSS pixels (Enhanced) (WCAG 2.5.5) (rule↗) Moderate 732 — See remediation guidance: https://alfa.siteimprove.com/rules/sia-r111 pages (CSV)

Progress

Open findings by severity over 11 weeks (lower is better)
Critical Serious Moderate Minor W24W29W34530
Open findings by severity, by week
WeekCriticalSeriousModerateMinor
2026-W24214404
2026-W25616475
2026-W26616475
2026-W27415504
2026-W28617484
2026-W29820535
2026-W30718534
2026-W31719515
2026-W32519476
2026-W33619505
2026-W34619483

Dropped from this week's sample

These stopped appearing in scan results, but their pages were not re-checked this week — this is not a confirmed fix.

This week at a glance 76 issue type(s)

Median axe violations / page
5
Pages with axe violations
2959 of 2960
Median Alfa failures / page
83
Pages with Alfa failures
737 of 737
Unique pages audited
2960
Lighthouse performance (median)
79/100 289 sampled details
Lighthouse SEO (median)
100/100
Lighthouse best practices (median)
96/100
Lighthouse agentic (median)
96/100
Words per page (median)
736 main content, nav excluded
Reading ease (median)
44.7 1241 prose pages
Reading grade (median)
12.4
Misspellings
25+ distinct details
Broken links
1495 details
Median page weight
4.9 MB -114 KB better
Median requests per page
44
Estimated energy per page (mean)
1.3706 Wh
Scan coverage this week (3332 pages · 3735 succeeded of 4159 attempted)
Pages each engine ran on, per the configured weekly sampling rates.
EnginePagesCoverage
axe296089%
resources296089%
standards149345%
plain-language142343%
alfa73722%
sustainability32810%
deprecated-html3169%
security3039%
lighthouse2899%
tech2849%

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

Changes since 2026-W33 33 change(s)

axe-core

  • New: aria-required-children appeared this week.
  • New: area-alt appeared this week.
  • New: aria-input-field-name appeared this week.
  • Resolved: aria-dialog-name no longer fails on any scanned page.
  • Resolved: button-name no longer fails on any scanned page.
  • Resolved: image-redundant-alt no longer fails on any scanned page.
  • Resolved: landmark-banner-is-top-level no longer fails on any scanned page.
  • Resolved: landmark-no-duplicate-banner no longer fails on any scanned page.
  • Resolved: aria-required-parent no longer fails on any scanned page.
  • Resolved: table-duplicate-name no longer fails on any scanned page.
  • landmark-unique shrank: 895 → 814 pages affected (rate: 30% → 28% of pages scanned).
  • page-has-heading-one shrank: 188 → 118 pages affected (rate: 6% → 4% of pages scanned).
  • heading-order spread: 874 → 962 pages affected (rate: 29% → 33% of pages scanned).
  • color-contrast spread: 537 → 613 pages affected (rate: 18% → 21% of pages scanned).
  • landmark-one-main spread: 752 → 846 pages affected (rate: 25% → 29% of pages scanned).
  • html-has-lang spread: 516 → 621 pages affected (rate: 17% → 21% of pages scanned).
  • image-alt spread: 528 → 628 pages affected (rate: 17% → 21% of pages scanned).

Alfa

  • New: sia-r47 appeared this week.
  • New: sia-r72 appeared this week.
  • New: sia-r71 appeared this week.
  • New: sia-r75 appeared this week.
  • Resolved: sia-r54 no longer fails on any scanned page.
  • Resolved: sia-r80 no longer fails on any scanned page.
  • Resolved: sia-r76 no longer fails on any scanned page.
  • Resolved: sia-r85 no longer fails on any scanned page.
  • sia-r74 spread: 277 → 302 pages affected (rate: 37% → 41% of pages scanned).
  • sia-r73 spread: 234 → 251 pages affected (rate: 31% → 34% of pages scanned).
  • sia-r70 spread: 175 → 189 pages affected (rate: 23% → 26% of pages scanned).
  • sia-r66 shrank: 646 → 616 pages affected (rate: 86% → 84% of pages scanned).
  • sia-r18 shrank: 396 → 371 pages affected (rate: 53% → 50% of pages scanned).
  • sia-r57 shrank: 551 → 523 pages affected (rate: 73% → 71% of pages scanned).
  • sia-r14 shrank: 93 → 75 pages affected (rate: 12% → 10% of pages scanned).
  • sia-r61 shrank: 91 → 71 pages affected (rate: 12% → 10% 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 (3840)

5910 distinct resources, by type.
TypeCount
PDF documents4319
Images574
Archives (zip, etc.)405
Embedded media players175
Video files138
Spreadsheets135
Iframes99
Word/text documents24
Audio files22
Presentations14
Embeds / objects5