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www.cms.gov: week 2026-W31

This is the 2026-W31 ISO-week report (5543 pages fetched, 4509 unique pages audited by axe/Alfa). Generated 2026-08-02. Compared against 2026-W30 (7180 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
0
Regressed this week
2

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 1142 — 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 1140 — See remediation guidance: https://alfa.siteimprove.com/rules/sia-r73 pages (CSV)
Form field label is visible (WCAG criterion undetermined) (rule↗) Moderate 1128 — See remediation guidance: https://alfa.siteimprove.com/rules/sia-r61 pages (CSV)
Links must be distinguishable without relying on color (WCAG 1.4.1) (rule↗) Serious 445 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 546 — See remediation guidance: https://alfa.siteimprove.com/rules/sia-r57 pages (CSV)
<ul> and <ol> must only directly contain <li>, <script> or <template> elements (WCAG 1.3.1) (rule↗) Serious 344 Without vision, Limited vision Use <ul>/<ol> with only <li> children for lists; don't fake lists with <div>s. pages (CSV)
Link is distinguishable without relying on color (WCAG 1.4.8) (rule↗) Moderate 303 — See remediation guidance: https://alfa.siteimprove.com/rules/sia-r74 pages (CSV)
Text has enhanced contrast (WCAG 1.4.6) (rule↗) Moderate 301 — Increase text contrast to meet WCAG AAA (7:1). pages (CSV)

Progress

Open findings by severity over 8 weeks (lower is better)
Critical Serious Moderate Minor W24W27W31470

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 50 issue type(s)
Median axe violations / page
0
Pages with axe violations
956 of 4509
Median Alfa failures / page
54
Pages with Alfa failures
1142 of 1142
Unique pages audited
4509
Lighthouse performance (median)
63/100 430 sampled details
Lighthouse SEO (median)
92/100
Lighthouse best practices (median)
100/100
Lighthouse agentic (median)
91/100
Words per page (median)
522 main content, nav excluded
Reading ease (median)
41 726 prose pages
Reading grade (median)
14
Misspellings
25+ distinct details
Broken links
1956 details
Median page weight
1.8 MB no change
Median requests per page
44
Estimated energy per page (mean)
0.5054 Wh

Note: page counts differ between weeks (7180 → 5543). Prefer the "pages affected" columns over raw instance counts when comparing.

Scan coverage this week (5543 pages · 4506 succeeded of 5307 attempted)
Pages each engine ran on, per the configured weekly sampling rates.
EnginePagesCoverage
axe450981%
resources450981%
standards225541%
plain-language217939%
alfa114221%
sustainability5119%
tech4799%
deprecated-html4478%
security4378%
lighthouse4308%

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

Changes since 2026-W30 6 change(s)

axe-core

  • New: image-redundant-alt appeared this week.
  • New: landmark-banner-is-top-level appeared this week.

Alfa

  • New: sia-r62 appeared this week.
  • Resolved: sia-r45 no longer fails on any scanned page.
  • sia-r53 shrank: 474 → 280 pages affected (rate: 28% → 25% of pages scanned).
  • sia-r113 shrank: 176 → 94 pages affected (rate: 10% → 8% 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 (4216)

7073 distinct resources, by type.
TypeCount
PDF documents3454
Iframes2277
Archives (zip, etc.)1194
Spreadsheets104
Word/text documents16
Video files13
Presentations6
Images6
Audio files2
Embedded media players1