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www.healthcare.gov: week 2026-W25

This is the 2026-W25 ISO-week report (569 pages fetched, 569 unique pages audited by axe/Alfa). Generated 2026-07-12. Compared against 2026-W24 (569 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: 9 required finding type(s) (handling: review). Aspirational queue: 0 finding type(s). Advisory queue: 0 finding type(s). Unmapped review queue: 4 finding type(s).

New this week
0
Fixed this week
5
Regressed this week
0

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
ARIA attributes must conform to valid values (WCAG 4.1.2) (rule↗) Critical 551 Without vision, Limited vision Fix the ARIA attribute value — it must reference a real id or use an allowed value. pages (CSV)
Text has minimum contrast ratio of 4.5:1 (WCAG 1.4.8) (rule↗) Moderate 169 — See remediation guidance: https://alfa.siteimprove.com/rules/sia-r73 pages (CSV)
Target size is at least 44×44 CSS pixels (Enhanced) (WCAG 2.5.5) (rule↗) Moderate 169 — See remediation guidance: https://alfa.siteimprove.com/rules/sia-r111 pages (CSV)
aria attribute is permitted for element role (WCAG criterion undetermined) (rule↗) Moderate 166 — Only use ARIA states/properties that are allowed on this element/role. pages (CSV)
Form field label is visible (WCAG criterion undetermined) (rule↗) Moderate 165 — See remediation guidance: https://alfa.siteimprove.com/rules/sia-r61 pages (CSV)
Target size is at least 24×24 CSS pixels or has spacing (Minimum) (WCAG 2.5.8) (rule↗) Moderate 30 Limited manipulation/strength, Limited reach See remediation guidance: https://alfa.siteimprove.com/rules/sia-r113 pages (CSV)
Heading levels should only increase by one (WCAG criterion undetermined) (rule↗) Moderate 12 — Use heading levels in order (h1 → h2 → h3) without skipping; structure, not size. pages (CSV)
Landmarks should have a unique role or role/label/title (i.e. accessible name) c (WCAG criterion undetermined) (rule↗) Moderate 11 — When a landmark role/type repeats (e.g. two <nav>s), give each a distinct accessible name with aria-label or aria-labelledby (e.g. "Primary" and "Footer" navigation) so screen-reader users can tell them apart. pages (CSV)

Progress

Open findings by severity over 2 weeks (lower is better)
Critical Serious Moderate Minor W24W25170

Fixed this week

This week at a glance 20 issue type(s)
Median axe violations / page
1
Pages with axe violations
552 of 569
Median Alfa failures / page
50
Pages with Alfa failures
169 of 169
Unique pages audited
569
Lighthouse performance (median)
42/100 57 sampled details
Lighthouse SEO (median)
92/100
Lighthouse best practices (median)
77/100
Words per page (median)
157 main content, nav excluded
Reading ease (median)
41 80 prose pages
Reading grade (median)
14
Misspellings
25+ distinct details
Broken links
1 details
Median page weight
2.9 MB -3 KB better
Median requests per page
103
Estimated energy per page (mean)
0.9061 Wh
Scan coverage this week (569 pages)
Pages each engine ran on, per the configured weekly sampling rates.
EnginePagesCoverage
axe569100%
deprecated-html569100%
resources569100%
sustainability569100%
plain-language25044%
alfa16930%
lighthouse5710%

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

Changes since 2026-W24 8 change(s)

axe-core

No rule-level changes.

Alfa

  • Resolved: sia-r17 no longer fails on any scanned page.
  • Resolved: sia-r57 no longer fails on any scanned page.
  • Resolved: sia-r86 no longer fails on any scanned page.
  • Resolved: sia-r2 no longer fails on any scanned page.
  • Resolved: sia-r64 no longer fails on any scanned page.
  • sia-r113 spread: 28 → 30 pages affected (rate: 13% → 18% of pages scanned).
  • sia-r66 shrank: 11 → 2 pages affected (rate: 5% → 1% of pages scanned).
  • sia-r69 shrank: 11 → 2 pages affected (rate: 5% → 1% 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 (258)

319 distinct resources, by type.
TypeCount
PDF documents241
Archives (zip, etc.)62
Iframes10
Spreadsheets4
Embedded media players1
Images1