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www.cms.gov: week 2026-W34

This is the 2026-W34 ISO-week report (5906 pages fetched, 3184 unique pages audited by axe/Alfa). Generated 2026-08-23. Compared against 2026-W33 (6702 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: 24 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
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 832 — 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 824 — See remediation guidance: https://alfa.siteimprove.com/rules/sia-r73 pages (CSV)
Links must be distinguishable without relying on color (WCAG 1.4.1) (rule↗) Serious 533 Without color perception, Limited vision See remediation guidance: https://dequeuniversity.com/rules/axe/4.12/link-in-text-block?application=axeAPI pages (CSV)
Form field label is visible (WCAG criterion undetermined) (rule↗) Moderate 793 — 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 355 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 427 — See remediation guidance: https://alfa.siteimprove.com/rules/sia-r74 pages (CSV)
Text has enhanced contrast (WCAG 1.4.6) (rule↗) Moderate 426 — Increase text contrast to meet WCAG AAA (7:1). pages (CSV)
Accessible name of link or button matches visible label (WCAG 2.5.3) (rule↗) Moderate 426 Without vision, Without speech See remediation guidance: https://alfa.siteimprove.com/rules/sia-r14 pages (CSV)

Progress

Open findings by severity over 11 weeks (lower is better)
Critical Serious Moderate Minor W24W29W34470

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 53 issue type(s)
Median axe violations / page
0
Pages with axe violations
1211 of 3184
Median Alfa failures / page
66
Pages with Alfa failures
832 of 832
Unique pages audited
3184
Lighthouse performance (median)
55/100 316 sampled details
Lighthouse SEO (median)
100/100
Lighthouse best practices (median)
96/100
Lighthouse agentic (median)
98/100
Words per page (median)
1985 main content, nav excluded
Reading ease (median)
40.9 831 prose pages
Reading grade (median)
13.9
Misspellings
25+ distinct details
Broken links
3437 details
Median page weight
1.2 MB +23 KB worse
Median requests per page
42
Estimated energy per page (mean)
0.363 Wh

Note: page counts differ between weeks (6702 → 5906). Prefer the "pages affected" columns over raw instance counts when comparing.

Scan coverage this week (5906 pages · 3171 succeeded of 5899 attempted)
Pages each engine ran on, per the configured weekly sampling rates.
EnginePagesCoverage
axe318454%
resources318454%
plain-language158627%
standards153526%
alfa83214%
sustainability57710%
security3446%
lighthouse3165%
tech3155%
deprecated-html3045%

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

Changes since 2026-W33 15 change(s)

axe-core

  • New: aria-progressbar-name appeared this week.
  • New: aria-hidden-focus appeared this week.
  • Resolved: aria-allowed-attr no longer fails on any scanned page.
  • Resolved: nested-interactive no longer fails on any scanned page.
  • link-in-text-block shrank: 669 → 533 pages affected (rate: 19% → 17% of pages scanned).

Alfa

  • New: sia-r7 appeared this week.
  • Resolved: sia-r42 no longer fails on any scanned page.
  • Resolved: sia-r45 no longer fails on any scanned page.
  • sia-r66 shrank: 453 → 426 pages affected (rate: 54% → 51% of pages scanned).
  • sia-r53 shrank: 422 → 392 pages affected (rate: 50% → 47% of pages scanned).
  • sia-r74 shrank: 452 → 427 pages affected (rate: 54% → 51% of pages scanned).
  • sia-r14 shrank: 451 → 426 pages affected (rate: 54% → 51% of pages scanned).
  • sia-r57 spread: 248 → 276 pages affected (rate: 30% → 33% of pages scanned).
  • sia-r78 spread: 173 → 200 pages affected (rate: 21% → 24% of pages scanned).
  • sia-r113 spread: 140 → 156 pages affected (rate: 17% → 19% 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 (5333)

8346 distinct resources, by type.
TypeCount
PDF documents4597
Iframes2640
Archives (zip, etc.)816
Spreadsheets187
Word/text documents48
Images18
Audio files14
Video files13
Presentations10
Embedded media players3