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www.cms.gov: week 2026-W30

This is the 2026-W30 ISO-week report (7180 pages fetched, 6700 unique pages audited by axe/Alfa). Generated 2026-07-26. Compared against 2026-W29 (8600 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: 22 required finding type(s) (handling: review). Aspirational queue: 0 finding type(s). Advisory queue: 0 finding type(s). Unmapped review queue: 10 finding type(s).

New this week
0
Fixed this week
1
Regressed this week
1

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 1709 — 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 1703 — See remediation guidance: https://alfa.siteimprove.com/rules/sia-r73 pages (CSV)
Form field label is visible (WCAG criterion undetermined) (rule↗) Moderate 1691 — See remediation guidance: https://alfa.siteimprove.com/rules/sia-r61 pages (CSV)
<ul> and <ol> must only directly contain <li>, <script> or <template> elements (WCAG 1.3.1) (rule↗) Serious 569 Without vision, Limited vision Use <ul>/<ol> with only <li> children for lists; don't fake lists with <div>s. pages (CSV)
Links must be distinguishable without relying on color (WCAG 1.4.1) (rule↗) Serious 593 Without color perception, Limited vision See remediation guidance: https://dequeuniversity.com/rules/axe/4.12/link-in-text-block?application=axeAPI pages (CSV)
Scrolling content can be accessed by keyboard (WCAG criterion undetermined) (rule↗) Moderate 787 — See remediation guidance: https://alfa.siteimprove.com/rules/sia-r57 pages (CSV)
Headings are structured hierarchically (WCAG criterion undetermined) (rule↗) Moderate 474 — Use headings in a logical, non-skipping order. pages (CSV)
Text has enhanced contrast (WCAG 1.4.6) (rule↗) Moderate 467 — Increase text contrast to meet WCAG AAA (7:1). pages (CSV)

Progress

Open findings by severity over 7 weeks (lower is better)
Critical Serious Moderate Minor W24W27W30470

Fixed this week

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 48 issue type(s)
Median axe violations / page
0
Pages with axe violations
1423 of 6700
Median Alfa failures / page
54
Pages with Alfa failures
1709 of 1709
Unique pages audited
6700
Lighthouse performance (median)
61/100 642 sampled details
Lighthouse SEO (median)
69/100
Lighthouse best practices (median)
100/100
Lighthouse agentic (median)
88/100
Words per page (median)
509 main content, nav excluded
Reading ease (median)
41 1008 prose pages
Reading grade (median)
14
Misspellings
25+ distinct details
Broken links
1228 details
Median page weight
1.8 MB -2 KB better
Median requests per page
46
Estimated energy per page (mean)
0.5774 Wh

Note: page counts differ between weeks (8600 → 7180). Prefer the "pages affected" columns over raw instance counts when comparing.

Scan coverage this week (7180 pages · 6713 succeeded of 6840 attempted)
Pages each engine ran on, per the configured weekly sampling rates.
EnginePagesCoverage
axe670093%
resources670093%
plain-language334047%
standards334047%
alfa170924%
sustainability68610%
security6709%
deprecated-html6699%
lighthouse6429%
tech6319%

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

Changes since 2026-W29 15 change(s)

axe-core

  • New: accesskeys appeared this week.
  • Resolved: select-name no longer fails on any scanned page.
  • Resolved: landmark-banner-is-top-level no longer fails on any scanned page.
  • Resolved: aria-allowed-attr no longer fails on any scanned page.
  • Resolved: aria-required-children no longer fails on any scanned page.
  • heading-order shrank: 810 → 360 pages affected (rate: 10% → 5% of pages scanned).

Alfa

  • Resolved: sia-r62 no longer fails on any scanned page.
  • Resolved: sia-r18 no longer fails on any scanned page.
  • Resolved: sia-r87 no longer fails on any scanned page.
  • Resolved: sia-r8 no longer fails on any scanned page.
  • Resolved: sia-r7 no longer fails on any scanned page.
  • sia-r66 shrank: 1224 → 467 pages affected (rate: 33% → 27% of pages scanned).
  • sia-r53 shrank: 1397 → 474 pages affected (rate: 38% → 28% of pages scanned).
  • sia-r74 shrank: 1223 → 465 pages affected (rate: 33% → 27% of pages scanned).
  • sia-r14 shrank: 1219 → 464 pages affected (rate: 33% → 27% 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 (6587)

10683 distinct resources, by type.
TypeCount
PDF documents5991
Iframes3158
Archives (zip, etc.)1196
Spreadsheets237
Word/text documents54
Audio files15
Video files13
Presentations8
Images6
Embedded media players5