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www.cms.gov: week 2026-W26

This is the 2026-W26 ISO-week report (8040 pages fetched, 5573 unique pages audited by axe/Alfa). Generated 2026-07-13. Compared against 2026-W25 (8304 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: 34 required finding type(s) (handling: review). Aspirational queue: 0 finding type(s). Advisory queue: 0 finding type(s). Unmapped review queue: 13 finding type(s).

New this week
2
Fixed this week
0
Regressed this week
3

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 2812 — 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 2804 — See remediation guidance: https://alfa.siteimprove.com/rules/sia-r73 pages (CSV)
Form field label is visible (WCAG criterion undetermined) (rule↗) Moderate 2738 — See remediation guidance: https://alfa.siteimprove.com/rules/sia-r61 pages (CSV)
Scrolling content can be accessed by keyboard (WCAG criterion undetermined) (rule↗) Moderate 1200 — See remediation guidance: https://alfa.siteimprove.com/rules/sia-r57 pages (CSV)
Headings are structured hierarchically (WCAG criterion undetermined) (rule↗) Moderate 956 — Use headings in a logical, non-skipping order. pages (CSV)
Text has enhanced contrast (WCAG 1.4.6) (rule↗) Moderate 928 — Increase text contrast to meet WCAG AAA (7:1). pages (CSV)
Link is distinguishable without relying on color (WCAG 1.4.8) (rule↗) Moderate 924 — 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 925 Without vision, Without speech See remediation guidance: https://alfa.siteimprove.com/rules/sia-r14 pages (CSV)

Progress

Open findings by severity over 3 weeks (lower is better)
Critical Serious Moderate Minor W24W25W26470

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 65 issue type(s)
Median axe violations / page
0
Pages with axe violations
1185 of 5573
Median Alfa failures / page
61
Pages with Alfa failures
2813 of 2813
Unique pages audited
5573
Lighthouse performance (median)
64/100 533 sampled details
Lighthouse SEO (median)
100/100
Lighthouse best practices (median)
96/100
Lighthouse agentic (median)
98/100
Words per page (median)
688 main content, nav excluded
Reading ease (median)
40.5 1161 prose pages
Reading grade (median)
14.1
Misspellings
25+ distinct details
Broken links
1744 details
Median page weight
1.8 MB -27 KB better
Median requests per page
44
Estimated energy per page (mean)
0.5866 Wh

Note: page counts differ between weeks (8304 → 8040). Prefer the "pages affected" columns over raw instance counts when comparing.

Scan coverage this week (8040 pages · 5857 succeeded of 6562 attempted)
Pages each engine ran on, per the configured weekly sampling rates.
EnginePagesCoverage
axe557369%
resources557369%
plain-language282635%
alfa281335%
standards279935%
sustainability6328%
security5907%
tech5777%
lighthouse5357%
deprecated-html5297%

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

Changes since 2026-W25 31 change(s)

axe-core

  • New: label appeared this week.
  • New: select-name appeared this week.
  • New: landmark-banner-is-top-level appeared this week.
  • New: button-name appeared this week.
  • Resolved: scrollable-region-focusable no longer fails on any scanned page.
  • Resolved: landmark-main-is-top-level no longer fails on any scanned page.
  • Resolved: landmark-no-duplicate-main no longer fails on any scanned page.
  • page-has-heading-one spread: 21 → 158 pages affected (rate: 0% → 3% of pages scanned).
  • empty-heading shrank: 286 → 47 pages affected (rate: 4% → 1% of pages scanned).
  • image-alt shrank: 273 → 32 pages affected (rate: 4% → 1% of pages scanned).

Alfa

  • New: sia-r42 appeared this week.
  • New: sia-r59 appeared this week.
  • New: sia-r75 appeared this week.
  • New: sia-r7 appeared this week.
  • New: sia-r20 appeared this week.
  • New: sia-r47 appeared this week.
  • New: sia-r84 appeared this week.
  • New: sia-r45 appeared this week.
  • New: sia-r17 appeared this week.
  • Resolved: sia-r21 no longer fails on any scanned page.
  • Resolved: sia-r110 no longer fails on any scanned page.
  • Resolved: sia-r76 no longer fails on any scanned page.
  • sia-r66 shrank: 1184 → 928 pages affected (rate: 42% → 33% of pages scanned).
  • sia-r74 shrank: 1181 → 924 pages affected (rate: 42% → 33% of pages scanned).
  • sia-r14 shrank: 1179 → 925 pages affected (rate: 42% → 33% of pages scanned).
  • sia-r57 spread: 1011 → 1200 pages affected (rate: 36% → 43% of pages scanned).
  • sia-r53 shrank: 1116 → 956 pages affected (rate: 40% → 34% of pages scanned).
  • sia-r78 shrank: 653 → 441 pages affected (rate: 23% → 16% of pages scanned).
  • sia-r113 shrank: 659 → 471 pages affected (rate: 23% → 17% of pages scanned).
  • sia-r2 shrank: 96 → 14 pages affected (rate: 3% → 0% of pages scanned).
  • sia-r64 shrank: 102 → 22 pages affected (rate: 4% → 1% 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 (11816)

14321 distinct resources, by type.
TypeCount
PDF documents7497
Iframes3330
Archives (zip, etc.)2602
Spreadsheets743
Presentations51
Word/text documents37
Images24
Embedded media players13
Audio files13
Video files11