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www.cms.gov: week 2026-W33

This is the 2026-W33 ISO-week report (6702 pages fetched, 3493 unique pages audited by axe/Alfa). Generated 2026-08-16. Compared against 2026-W32 (6846 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: 25 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
1
Regressed this week
5

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 669 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 838 — 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 829 — See remediation guidance: https://alfa.siteimprove.com/rules/sia-r73 pages (CSV)
Form field label is visible (WCAG criterion undetermined) (rule↗) Moderate 809 — 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 378 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 453 — Increase text contrast to meet WCAG AAA (7:1). pages (CSV)
Link is distinguishable without relying on color (WCAG 1.4.8) (rule↗) Moderate 452 — 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 451 Without vision, Without speech See remediation guidance: https://alfa.siteimprove.com/rules/sia-r14 pages (CSV)

Progress

Open findings by severity over 10 weeks (lower is better)
Critical Serious Moderate Minor W24W28W33470

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 55 issue type(s)
Median axe violations / page
0
Pages with axe violations
1324 of 3493
Median Alfa failures / page
76
Pages with Alfa failures
838 of 838
Unique pages audited
3493
Lighthouse performance (median)
56/100 335 sampled details
Lighthouse SEO (median)
100/100
Lighthouse best practices (median)
96/100
Lighthouse agentic (median)
98/100
Words per page (median)
2579 main content, nav excluded
Reading ease (median)
41 977 prose pages
Reading grade (median)
13.8
Misspellings
25+ distinct details
Broken links
3361 details
Median page weight
1.2 MB +1186 KB worse
Median requests per page
41
Estimated energy per page (mean)
0.3762 Wh

Note: page counts differ between weeks (6846 → 6702). Prefer the "pages affected" columns over raw instance counts when comparing.

Scan coverage this week (6702 pages · 3532 succeeded of 6773 attempted)
Pages each engine ran on, per the configured weekly sampling rates.
EnginePagesCoverage
axe349352%
resources349352%
plain-language179327%
standards173326%
alfa83813%
sustainability6249%
tech3605%
security3475%
deprecated-html3475%
lighthouse3355%

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

Changes since 2026-W32 17 change(s)

axe-core

  • New: landmark-banner-is-top-level appeared this week.
  • Resolved: aria-allowed-role no longer fails on any scanned page.
  • Resolved: select-name no longer fails on any scanned page.
  • Resolved: meta-viewport no longer fails on any scanned page.
  • Resolved: landmark-main-is-top-level no longer fails on any scanned page.
  • Resolved: landmark-no-duplicate-main no longer fails on any scanned page.
  • Resolved: aria-progressbar-name no longer fails on any scanned page.
  • link-in-text-block spread: 562 → 669 pages affected (rate: 17% → 19% of pages scanned).

Alfa

  • New: sia-r87 appeared this week.
  • Resolved: sia-r11 no longer fails on any scanned page.
  • Resolved: sia-r8 no longer fails on any scanned page.
  • sia-r66 spread: 386 → 453 pages affected (rate: 47% → 54% of pages scanned).
  • sia-r53 spread: 366 → 422 pages affected (rate: 45% → 50% of pages scanned).
  • sia-r74 spread: 385 → 452 pages affected (rate: 47% → 54% of pages scanned).
  • sia-r14 spread: 386 → 451 pages affected (rate: 47% → 54% of pages scanned).
  • sia-r57 shrank: 297 → 248 pages affected (rate: 36% → 30% of pages scanned).
  • sia-r78 spread: 149 → 173 pages affected (rate: 18% → 21% 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 (5211)

8178 distinct resources, by type.
TypeCount
PDF documents3976
Iframes3115
Archives (zip, etc.)912
Spreadsheets125
Word/text documents17
Images14
Video files11
Presentations4
Embedded media players3
Audio files1