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www.cdc.gov: week 2026-W37

This is the 2026-W37 ISO-week report (3330 pages fetched, 2927 unique pages audited by axe/Alfa). Generated 2026-09-11. Compared against 2026-W36 (3331 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: 37 required finding type(s) (handling: review). Aspirational queue: 0 finding type(s). Advisory queue: 0 finding type(s). Unmapped review queue: 16 finding type(s).

Change this week

New this week
0
Fixed this week
0
Regressed this week
7

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 2924 — 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 596 Without vision, Limited vision Give every <img> a meaningful alt attribute. Use alt="" only for decorative images so screen readers skip them. pages (CSV)
Landmarks should have a unique role or role/label/title (i.e. accessible name) c (WCAG criterion undetermined) (rule↗) Moderate 937 — 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)
<html> element must have a lang attribute (WCAG 3.1.1) (rule↗) Serious 589 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 887 — 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 544 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 743 — Each page should have exactly one <main> landmark. pages (CSV)
Target size is at least 44×44 CSS pixels (Enhanced) (WCAG 2.5.5) (rule↗) Moderate 720 — See remediation guidance: https://alfa.siteimprove.com/rules/sia-r111 pages (CSV)

Progress

Open findings by severity over 14 weeks (lower is better)
Critical Serious Moderate Minor W24W30W37530
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
2026-W35519414
2026-W36719485
2026-W37416495

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 74 issue type(s)

Median axe violations / page
5
Pages with axe violations
2926 of 2927
Median Alfa failures / page
90
Pages with Alfa failures
721 of 721
Unique pages audited
2927
Lighthouse performance (median)
80/100 283 sampled details
Lighthouse SEO (median)
100/100
Lighthouse best practices (median)
96/100
Lighthouse agentic (median)
97/100
Words per page (median)
737 main content, nav excluded
Reading ease (median)
44 1268 prose pages
Reading grade (median)
12
Misspellings
25+ distinct details
Broken links
993 details
Median page weight
5.2 MB +288 KB worse
Median requests per page
45
Estimated energy per page (mean)
1.7203 Wh

Note: page counts differ between weeks (3331 → 3330). Prefer the "pages affected" columns over raw instance counts when comparing.

Scan coverage this week (3330 pages · 3459 succeeded of 3871 attempted)
Pages each engine ran on, per the configured weekly sampling rates.
EnginePagesCoverage
axe292788%
resources292788%
plain-language145144%
standards142843%
alfa72122%
sustainability37111%
security3109%
tech2889%
lighthouse2849%
deprecated-html2758%

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

Changes since 2026-W36 27 change(s)

axe-core

  • New: aria-allowed-attr appeared this week.
  • New: valid-lang appeared this week.
  • Resolved: aria-required-children no longer fails on any scanned page.
  • Resolved: landmark-banner-is-top-level no longer fails on any scanned page.
  • Resolved: button-name no longer fails on any scanned page.
  • Resolved: aria-required-parent no longer fails on any scanned page.
  • Resolved: aria-prohibited-attr no longer fails on any scanned page.
  • Resolved: object-alt no longer fails on any scanned page.
  • Resolved: area-alt no longer fails on any scanned page.
  • Resolved: tabindex no longer fails on any scanned page.
  • Resolved: aria-dialog-name no longer fails on any scanned page.
  • landmark-one-main shrank: 811 → 743 pages affected (rate: 27% → 25% of pages scanned).
  • landmark-unique spread: 856 → 937 pages affected (rate: 29% → 32% of pages scanned).

Alfa

  • New: sia-r90 appeared this week.
  • New: sia-r17 appeared this week.
  • New: sia-r7 appeared this week.
  • New: sia-r85 appeared this week.
  • New: sia-r1 appeared this week.
  • Resolved: sia-r75 no longer fails on any scanned page.
  • Resolved: sia-r80 no longer fails on any scanned page.
  • sia-r18 spread: 366 → 378 pages affected (rate: 50% → 52% of pages scanned).
  • sia-r57 spread: 529 → 553 pages affected (rate: 72% → 77% of pages scanned).
  • sia-r69 spread: 220 → 243 pages affected (rate: 30% → 34% of pages scanned).
  • sia-r74 shrank: 293 → 252 pages affected (rate: 40% → 35% of pages scanned).
  • sia-r73 shrank: 250 → 210 pages affected (rate: 34% → 29% of pages scanned).
  • sia-r70 shrank: 177 → 152 pages affected (rate: 24% → 21% of pages scanned).
  • sia-r61 shrank: 78 → 51 pages affected (rate: 11% → 7% 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 (4658)

6488 distinct resources, by type.
TypeCount
PDF documents5100
Images613
Embedded media players188
Audio files110
Video files100
Presentations97
Archives (zip, etc.)90
Spreadsheets80
Iframes67
Word/text documents43