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www.healthcare.gov: week 2026-W27

This is the 2026-W27 ISO-week report (570 pages fetched, 570 unique pages audited by axe/Alfa). Generated 2026-07-18. Compared against 2026-W26 (570 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: 13 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).

Change this week

New this week
0
Fixed this week
1
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 552 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↗) Serious 296 — 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↗) Serious 296 — See remediation guidance: https://alfa.siteimprove.com/rules/sia-r111 pages (CSV)
aria attribute is permitted for element role (WCAG criterion undetermined) (rule↗) Serious 292 — Only use ARIA states/properties that are allowed on this element/role. pages (CSV)
Form field label is visible (WCAG criterion undetermined) (rule↗) Serious 289 — 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 49 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 4 weeks (lower is better)
Critical Serious Moderate Minor W24W25W27130
Open findings by severity, by week
WeekCriticalSeriousModerateMinor
2026-W2429131
2026-W252981
2026-W2629131
2026-W2729121

Fixed this week

This week at a glance 24 issue type(s)

Median axe violations / page
1
Pages with axe violations
553 of 570
Median Alfa failures / page
50
Pages with Alfa failures
296 of 296
Unique pages audited
570
Lighthouse performance (median)
43/100 42 sampled details
Lighthouse SEO (median)
92/100
Lighthouse best practices (median)
77/100
Lighthouse agentic (median)
67/100
Words per page (median)
162 main content, nav excluded
Reading ease (median)
41.6 97 prose pages
Reading grade (median)
14.5
Misspellings
25+ distinct details
Broken links
9 details
Median page weight
2.9 MB -8 KB better
Median requests per page
103
Estimated energy per page (mean)
0.9099 Wh
Scan coverage this week (570 pages · 1139 succeeded of 1139 attempted)
Pages each engine ran on, per the configured weekly sampling rates.
EnginePagesCoverage
axe570100%
resources570100%
plain-language31155%
standards30253%
alfa29652%
tech6612%
sustainability6211%
security519%
deprecated-html448%
lighthouse427%

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

Changes since 2026-W26 1 change(s)

axe-core

No rule-level changes.

Alfa

  • Resolved: sia-r78 no longer fails on any scanned page.

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 (7)

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