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www.cms.gov: week 2026-W29

This is the 2026-W29 ISO-week report (8600 pages fetched, 8018 unique pages audited by axe/Alfa). Generated 2026-07-24. Compared against 2026-W28 (8594 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: 12 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 3686 — 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 3674 — See remediation guidance: https://alfa.siteimprove.com/rules/sia-r73 pages (CSV)
Form field label is visible (WCAG criterion undetermined) (rule↗) Moderate 3646 — See remediation guidance: https://alfa.siteimprove.com/rules/sia-r61 pages (CSV)
Scrolling content can be accessed by keyboard (WCAG criterion undetermined) (rule↗) Moderate 1652 — See remediation guidance: https://alfa.siteimprove.com/rules/sia-r57 pages (CSV)
Headings are structured hierarchically (WCAG criterion undetermined) (rule↗) Moderate 1397 — Use headings in a logical, non-skipping order. pages (CSV)
Text has enhanced contrast (WCAG 1.4.6) (rule↗) Moderate 1224 — Increase text contrast to meet WCAG AAA (7:1). pages (CSV)
Link is distinguishable without relying on color (WCAG 1.4.8) (rule↗) Moderate 1223 — 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 1219 Without vision, Without speech See remediation guidance: https://alfa.siteimprove.com/rules/sia-r14 pages (CSV)

Progress

Open findings by severity over 6 weeks (lower is better)
Critical Serious Moderate Minor W24W26W29470

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 56 issue type(s)
Median axe violations / page
0
Pages with axe violations
2127 of 8018
Median Alfa failures / page
55
Pages with Alfa failures
3686 of 3686
Unique pages audited
8018
Lighthouse performance (median)
62/100 799 sampled details
Lighthouse SEO (median)
92/100
Lighthouse best practices (median)
100/100
Lighthouse agentic (median)
95/100
Words per page (median)
575 main content, nav excluded
Reading ease (median)
41 1398 prose pages
Reading grade (median)
14
Misspellings
25+ distinct details
Broken links
1945 details
Median page weight
1.8 MB -43 KB better
Median requests per page
45
Estimated energy per page (mean)
0.6115 Wh

Note: page counts differ between weeks (8594 → 8600). Prefer the "pages affected" columns over raw instance counts when comparing.

Scan coverage this week (8600 pages · 7954 succeeded of 8013 attempted)
Pages each engine ran on, per the configured weekly sampling rates.
EnginePagesCoverage
axe801893%
resources801893%
plain-language399646%
standards393046%
alfa368643%
security82810%
tech82210%
sustainability8109%
lighthouse7999%
deprecated-html7759%

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

Changes since 2026-W28 19 change(s)

axe-core

  • New: select-name appeared this week.
  • Resolved: accesskeys no longer fails on any scanned page.
  • Resolved: aria-progressbar-name no longer fails on any scanned page.
  • Resolved: button-name no longer fails on any scanned page.
  • Resolved: aria-allowed-role no longer fails on any scanned page.
  • Resolved: meta-viewport no longer fails on any scanned page.
  • list shrank: 716 → 608 pages affected (rate: 10% → 8% of pages scanned).
  • link-in-text-block shrank: 1003 → 751 pages affected (rate: 13% → 9% of pages scanned).

Alfa

  • New: sia-r7 appeared this week.
  • Resolved: sia-r42 no longer fails on any scanned page.
  • Resolved: sia-r40 no longer fails on any scanned page.
  • sia-r57 spread: 1370 → 1652 pages affected (rate: 37% → 45% of pages scanned).
  • sia-r66 shrank: 1624 → 1224 pages affected (rate: 44% → 33% of pages scanned).
  • sia-r53 shrank: 1654 → 1397 pages affected (rate: 45% → 38% of pages scanned).
  • sia-r74 shrank: 1622 → 1223 pages affected (rate: 44% → 33% of pages scanned).
  • sia-r14 shrank: 1621 → 1219 pages affected (rate: 44% → 33% of pages scanned).
  • sia-r113 shrank: 538 → 443 pages affected (rate: 15% → 12% of pages scanned).
  • sia-r78 shrank: 614 → 483 pages affected (rate: 17% → 13% of pages scanned).
  • sia-r68 shrank: 315 → 235 pages affected (rate: 9% → 6% 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 (9783)

13595 distinct resources, by type.
TypeCount
PDF documents6703
Iframes4717
Archives (zip, etc.)1777
Spreadsheets306
Word/text documents34
Presentations21
Video files19
Images10
Audio files7
Embedded media players1