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www.cms.gov: week 2026-W27

This is the 2026-W27 ISO-week report (8287 pages fetched, 6588 unique pages audited by axe/Alfa). Generated 2026-07-18. Compared against 2026-W26 (8040 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: 13 finding type(s).

New this week
0
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 3338 — 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 3327 — See remediation guidance: https://alfa.siteimprove.com/rules/sia-r73 pages (CSV)
Form field label is visible (WCAG criterion undetermined) (rule↗) Moderate 3288 — See remediation guidance: https://alfa.siteimprove.com/rules/sia-r61 pages (CSV)
Text has enhanced contrast (WCAG 1.4.6) (rule↗) Moderate 1336 — Increase text contrast to meet WCAG AAA (7:1). pages (CSV)
Links must be distinguishable without relying on color (WCAG 1.4.1) (rule↗) Serious 894 Without color perception, Limited vision See remediation guidance: https://dequeuniversity.com/rules/axe/4.12/link-in-text-block?application=axeAPI pages (CSV)
Link is distinguishable without relying on color (WCAG 1.4.8) (rule↗) Moderate 1332 — See remediation guidance: https://alfa.siteimprove.com/rules/sia-r74 pages (CSV)
Headings are structured hierarchically (WCAG criterion undetermined) (rule↗) Moderate 1294 — Use headings in a logical, non-skipping order. pages (CSV)
Accessible name of link or button matches visible label (WCAG 2.5.3) (rule↗) Moderate 1334 Without vision, Without speech See remediation guidance: https://alfa.siteimprove.com/rules/sia-r14 pages (CSV)

Progress

Open findings by severity over 4 weeks (lower is better)
Critical Serious Moderate Minor W24W25W27470

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 60 issue type(s)
Median axe violations / page
0
Pages with axe violations
1920 of 6588
Median Alfa failures / page
62
Pages with Alfa failures
3338 of 3338
Unique pages audited
6588
Lighthouse performance (median)
61/100 690 sampled details
Lighthouse SEO (median)
100/100
Lighthouse best practices (median)
96/100
Lighthouse agentic (median)
97/100
Words per page (median)
898 main content, nav excluded
Reading ease (median)
41.1 1563 prose pages
Reading grade (median)
13.9
Misspellings
25+ distinct details
Broken links
2123 details
Median page weight
1.8 MB -2 KB better
Median requests per page
44
Estimated energy per page (mean)
0.6184 Wh

Note: page counts differ between weeks (8040 → 8287). Prefer the "pages affected" columns over raw instance counts when comparing.

Scan coverage this week (8287 pages · 6846 succeeded of 7439 attempted)
Pages each engine ran on, per the configured weekly sampling rates.
EnginePagesCoverage
axe658879%
resources658879%
plain-language338541%
alfa333840%
standards325739%
sustainability7389%
lighthouse6908%
deprecated-html6548%
security6478%
tech6087%

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

Changes since 2026-W26 20 change(s)

axe-core

  • Resolved: image-alt no longer fails on any scanned page.
  • Resolved: definition-list no longer fails on any scanned page.
  • Resolved: aria-allowed-attr no longer fails on any scanned page.
  • Resolved: accesskeys no longer fails on any scanned page.
  • Resolved: button-name no longer fails on any scanned page.
  • list spread: 372 → 617 pages affected (rate: 7% → 9% of pages scanned).
  • link-in-text-block spread: 318 → 894 pages affected (rate: 6% → 14% of pages scanned).

Alfa

  • Resolved: sia-r2 no longer fails on any scanned page.
  • Resolved: sia-r12 no longer fails on any scanned page.
  • Resolved: sia-r84 no longer fails on any scanned page.
  • Resolved: sia-r45 no longer fails on any scanned page.
  • Resolved: sia-r17 no longer fails on any scanned page.
  • sia-r57 spread: 1200 → 1266 pages affected (rate: 43% → 38% of pages scanned).
  • sia-r113 shrank: 471 → 366 pages affected (rate: 17% → 11% of pages scanned).
  • sia-r66 spread: 928 → 1336 pages affected (rate: 33% → 40% of pages scanned).
  • sia-r53 spread: 956 → 1294 pages affected (rate: 34% → 39% of pages scanned).
  • sia-r74 spread: 924 → 1332 pages affected (rate: 33% → 40% of pages scanned).
  • sia-r14 spread: 925 → 1334 pages affected (rate: 33% → 40% of pages scanned).
  • sia-r78 shrank: 441 → 387 pages affected (rate: 16% → 12% of pages scanned).
  • sia-r68 spread: 120 → 222 pages affected (rate: 4% → 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 (11942)

15206 distinct resources, by type.
TypeCount
PDF documents7664
Iframes4833
Archives (zip, etc.)2066
Spreadsheets430
Word/text documents122
Video files29
Presentations22
Audio files19
Embedded media players12
Images9