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www.cms.gov: week 2026-W25

This is the 2026-W25 ISO-week report (8304 pages fetched, 6753 unique pages audited by axe/Alfa). Generated 2026-07-12. Compared against 2026-W24 (2629 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: 28 required finding type(s) (handling: review). Aspirational queue: 0 finding type(s). Advisory queue: 0 finding type(s). Unmapped review queue: 11 finding type(s).

New this week
0
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
Target size is at least 44×44 CSS pixels (Enhanced) (WCAG 2.5.5) (rule↗) Moderate 2811 — See remediation guidance: https://alfa.siteimprove.com/rules/sia-r111 pages (CSV)
Text has minimum contrast ratio of 4.5:1 (WCAG 1.4.8) (rule↗) Moderate 2802 — See remediation guidance: https://alfa.siteimprove.com/rules/sia-r73 pages (CSV)
Form field label is visible (WCAG criterion undetermined) (rule↗) Moderate 2715 — See remediation guidance: https://alfa.siteimprove.com/rules/sia-r61 pages (CSV)
Text has enhanced contrast (WCAG 1.4.6) (rule↗) Moderate 1184 — Increase text contrast to meet WCAG AAA (7:1). pages (CSV)
Link is distinguishable without relying on color (WCAG 1.4.8) (rule↗) Moderate 1181 — See remediation guidance: https://alfa.siteimprove.com/rules/sia-r74 pages (CSV)
Accessible name of link or button matches visible label (WCAG 2.5.3) (rule↗) Moderate 1179 Without vision, Without speech See remediation guidance: https://alfa.siteimprove.com/rules/sia-r14 pages (CSV)
Headings are structured hierarchically (WCAG criterion undetermined) (rule↗) Moderate 1116 — Use headings in a logical, non-skipping order. pages (CSV)
Scrolling content can be accessed by keyboard (WCAG criterion undetermined) (rule↗) Moderate 1011 — See remediation guidance: https://alfa.siteimprove.com/rules/sia-r57 pages (CSV)

Progress

Open findings by severity over 2 weeks (lower is better)
Critical Serious Moderate Minor W24W25420

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 58 issue type(s)
Median axe violations / page
0
Pages with axe violations
1642 of 6753
Median Alfa failures / page
62
Pages with Alfa failures
2813 of 2813
Unique pages audited
6753
Lighthouse performance (median)
64/100 981 sampled details
Lighthouse SEO (median)
100/100
Lighthouse best practices (median)
96/100
Lighthouse agentic (median)
98/100
Words per page (median)
747 main content, nav excluded
Reading ease (median)
41 1500 prose pages
Reading grade (median)
14
Misspellings
25+ distinct details
Broken links
1747 details
Median page weight
1.8 MB -36 KB better
Median requests per page
44
Estimated energy per page (mean)
0.5896 Wh

Note: page counts differ between weeks (2629 → 8304). Prefer the "pages affected" columns over raw instance counts when comparing.

Scan coverage this week (8304 pages · 4430 succeeded of 4610 attempted)
Pages each engine ran on, per the configured weekly sampling rates.
EnginePagesCoverage
axe675381%
resources675381%
plain-language334540%
standards309837%
alfa281334%
sustainability151618%
deprecated-html149318%
lighthouse98112%
security5987%
tech4646%

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

Changes since 2026-W24 29 change(s)

axe-core

  • New: accesskeys appeared this week.
  • Resolved: landmark-banner-is-top-level no longer fails on any scanned page.
  • list spread: 9 → 519 pages affected (rate: 0% → 8% of pages scanned).
  • link-in-text-block spread: 32 → 503 pages affected (rate: 2% → 7% of pages scanned).
  • heading-order spread: 223 → 365 pages affected (rate: 12% → 5% of pages scanned).
  • empty-heading spread: 18 → 286 pages affected (rate: 1% → 4% of pages scanned).
  • html-has-lang spread: 11 → 273 pages affected (rate: 1% → 4% of pages scanned).
  • image-alt spread: 11 → 273 pages affected (rate: 1% → 4% of pages scanned).
  • landmark-one-main spread: 11 → 274 pages affected (rate: 1% → 4% of pages scanned).
  • region spread: 11 → 275 pages affected (rate: 1% → 4% of pages scanned).

Alfa

  • New: sia-r71 appeared this week.
  • New: sia-r46 appeared this week.
  • New: sia-r80 appeared this week.
  • New: sia-r85 appeared this week.
  • New: sia-r70 appeared this week.
  • Resolved: sia-r17 no longer fails on any scanned page.
  • Resolved: sia-r42 no longer fails on any scanned page.
  • sia-r61 spread: 1175 → 2715 pages affected (rate: 100% → 97% of pages scanned).
  • sia-r66 spread: 19 → 1184 pages affected (rate: 2% → 42% of pages scanned).
  • sia-r53 spread: 128 → 1116 pages affected (rate: 11% → 40% of pages scanned).
  • sia-r74 spread: 20 → 1181 pages affected (rate: 2% → 42% of pages scanned).
  • sia-r14 spread: 20 → 1179 pages affected (rate: 2% → 42% of pages scanned).
  • sia-r57 spread: 731 → 1011 pages affected (rate: 62% → 36% of pages scanned).
  • sia-r68 spread: 10 → 166 pages affected (rate: 1% → 6% of pages scanned).
  • sia-r113 spread: 6 → 659 pages affected (rate: 1% → 23% of pages scanned).
  • sia-r78 spread: 34 → 653 pages affected (rate: 3% → 23% of pages scanned).
  • sia-r2 spread: 3 → 96 pages affected (rate: 0% → 3% of pages scanned).
  • sia-r4 spread: 3 → 96 pages affected (rate: 0% → 3% of pages scanned).
  • sia-r64 spread: 6 → 102 pages affected (rate: 1% → 4% 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 (13961)

14634 distinct resources, by type.
TypeCount
PDF documents7551
Iframes4815
Archives (zip, etc.)1893
Spreadsheets203
Word/text documents59
Audio files32
Images30
Presentations25
Video files15
Embedded media players11