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www.cms.gov: week 2026-W32

This is the 2026-W32 ISO-week report (6846 pages fetched, 3298 unique pages audited by axe/Alfa). Generated 2026-08-09. Compared against 2026-W31 (5543 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: 27 required finding type(s) (handling: review). Aspirational queue: 0 finding type(s). Advisory queue: 0 finding type(s). Unmapped review queue: 11 finding type(s).

New this week
0
Fixed this week
0
Regressed this week
9

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
Links must be distinguishable without relying on color (WCAG 1.4.1) (rule↗) Serious 562 Without color perception, Limited vision See remediation guidance: https://dequeuniversity.com/rules/axe/4.12/link-in-text-block?application=axeAPI pages (CSV)
Target size is at least 44×44 CSS pixels (Enhanced) (WCAG 2.5.5) (rule↗) Moderate 822 — 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 820 — See remediation guidance: https://alfa.siteimprove.com/rules/sia-r73 pages (CSV)
Form field label is visible (WCAG criterion undetermined) (rule↗) Moderate 804 — 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 317 Without vision, Limited vision Use <ul>/<ol> with only <li> children for lists; don't fake lists with <div>s. pages (CSV)
Text has enhanced contrast (WCAG 1.4.6) (rule↗) Moderate 386 — Increase text contrast to meet WCAG AAA (7:1). pages (CSV)
Link is distinguishable without relying on color (WCAG 1.4.8) (rule↗) Moderate 385 — 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 386 Without vision, Without speech See remediation guidance: https://alfa.siteimprove.com/rules/sia-r14 pages (CSV)

Progress

Open findings by severity over 9 weeks (lower is better)
Critical Serious Moderate Minor W24W28W32470

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 57 issue type(s)
Median axe violations / page
0
Pages with axe violations
1099 of 3298
Median Alfa failures / page
66
Pages with Alfa failures
822 of 822
Unique pages audited
3298
Lighthouse performance (median)
57/100 339 sampled details
Lighthouse SEO (median)
100/100
Lighthouse best practices (median)
96/100
Lighthouse agentic (median)
98/100
Words per page (median)
1491 main content, nav excluded
Reading ease (median)
40 868 prose pages
Reading grade (median)
14
Misspellings
25+ distinct details
Broken links
2642 details
Median page weight
0 KB -1810 KB better
Median requests per page
2
Estimated energy per page (mean)
0.3283 Wh

Note: page counts differ between weeks (5543 → 6846). Prefer the "pages affected" columns over raw instance counts when comparing.

Scan coverage this week (6846 pages · 3302 succeeded of 6617 attempted)
Pages each engine ran on, per the configured weekly sampling rates.
EnginePagesCoverage
axe329848%
resources329848%
plain-language163524%
standards160823%
alfa82212%
sustainability65110%
deprecated-html3675%
tech3395%
lighthouse3395%
security3225%

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

Changes since 2026-W31 20 change(s)

axe-core

  • New: aria-allowed-role appeared this week.
  • New: select-name appeared this week.
  • New: meta-viewport appeared this week.
  • New: landmark-main-is-top-level appeared this week.
  • New: landmark-no-duplicate-main appeared this week.
  • New: aria-progressbar-name appeared this week.
  • Resolved: image-redundant-alt no longer fails on any scanned page.
  • Resolved: landmark-banner-is-top-level no longer fails on any scanned page.
  • link-in-text-block spread: 445 → 562 pages affected (rate: 10% → 17% of pages scanned).
  • heading-order spread: 209 → 272 pages affected (rate: 5% → 8% of pages scanned).

Alfa

  • New: sia-r45 appeared this week.
  • New: sia-r8 appeared this week.
  • sia-r57 shrank: 546 → 297 pages affected (rate: 48% → 36% of pages scanned).
  • sia-r66 spread: 301 → 386 pages affected (rate: 26% → 47% of pages scanned).
  • sia-r53 spread: 280 → 366 pages affected (rate: 25% → 45% of pages scanned).
  • sia-r74 spread: 303 → 385 pages affected (rate: 27% → 47% of pages scanned).
  • sia-r68 spread: 77 → 99 pages affected (rate: 7% → 12% of pages scanned).
  • sia-r14 spread: 301 → 386 pages affected (rate: 26% → 47% of pages scanned).
  • sia-r78 spread: 121 → 149 pages affected (rate: 11% → 18% of pages scanned).
  • sia-r113 spread: 94 → 121 pages affected (rate: 8% → 15% 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 (4892)

8099 distinct resources, by type.
TypeCount
PDF documents4095
Iframes2784
Archives (zip, etc.)1077
Spreadsheets104
Word/text documents13
Audio files8
Images7
Presentations6
Embedded media players3
Video files2