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www.cms.gov: week 2026-W24

This is the 2026-W24 ISO-week report (2629 pages fetched, 1844 unique pages audited by axe/Alfa). Generated 2026-07-06. First recorded week; no comparison yet. 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: 21 required finding type(s) (handling: review). Aspirational queue: 0 finding type(s). Advisory queue: 0 finding type(s). Unmapped review queue: 7 finding type(s).

New this week
41
Fixed this week
0
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 1178 — 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 1178 — See remediation guidance: https://alfa.siteimprove.com/rules/sia-r111 pages (CSV)
Form field label is visible (WCAG criterion undetermined) (rule↗) Moderate 1175 — See remediation guidance: https://alfa.siteimprove.com/rules/sia-r61 pages (CSV)
Scrolling content can be accessed by keyboard (WCAG criterion undetermined) (rule↗) Moderate 731 — See remediation guidance: https://alfa.siteimprove.com/rules/sia-r57 pages (CSV)
Heading levels should only increase by one (WCAG criterion undetermined) (rule↗) Moderate 223 — Use heading levels in order (h1 → h2 → h3) without skipping; structure, not size. pages (CSV)
Headings are structured hierarchically (WCAG criterion undetermined) (rule↗) Moderate 128 — Use headings in a logical, non-skipping order. pages (CSV)
Links must be distinguishable without relying on color (WCAG 1.4.1) (rule↗) Serious 32 Without color perception, Limited vision See remediation guidance: https://dequeuniversity.com/rules/axe/4.12/link-in-text-block?application=axeAPI pages (CSV)
Table header has scope (WCAG criterion undetermined) (rule↗) Moderate 34 — See remediation guidance: https://alfa.siteimprove.com/rules/sia-r78 pages (CSV)

Progress

This week at a glance 41 issue type(s)
Median axe violations / page
0
Pages with axe violations
315 of 1844
Median Alfa failures / page
63
Pages with Alfa failures
1178 of 1178
Unique pages audited
1844
Lighthouse performance (median)
66/100 91 sampled details
Lighthouse SEO (median)
92/100
Lighthouse best practices (median)
100/100
Words per page (median)
387 main content, nav excluded
Reading ease (median)
39.2 155 prose pages
Reading grade (median)
14.8
Misspellings
25+ distinct details
Broken links
107 details
Median page weight
1.8 MB
Median requests per page
51
Estimated energy per page (mean)
0.2607 Wh
Scan coverage this week (2629 pages)
Pages each engine ran on, per the configured weekly sampling rates.
EnginePagesCoverage
axe184470%
sustainability184470%
alfa117845%
deprecated-html94736%
resources83032%
plain-language45117%
lighthouse913%

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

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 (2825)

2825 distinct resources, by type.
TypeCount
PDF documents2000
Archives (zip, etc.)469
Spreadsheets185
Iframes100
Word/text documents37
Audio files14
Presentations10
Video files5
Images3
Embedded media players2