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www.healthcare.gov: week 2026-W38

This is the 2026-W38 ISO-week report (570 pages fetched, 570 unique pages audited by axe/Alfa). Generated 2026-09-30. Compared against 2026-W37 (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: 12 required finding type(s) (handling: review). Aspirational queue: 0 finding type(s). Advisory queue: 0 finding type(s). Unmapped review queue: 5 finding type(s).

Change this week

New this week
0
Fixed this week
2
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 295 — 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 295 — See remediation guidance: https://alfa.siteimprove.com/rules/sia-r111 pages (CSV)
aria attribute is permitted for element role (WCAG criterion undetermined) (rule↗) Serious 286 — Only use ARIA states/properties that are allowed on this element/role. pages (CSV)
Form field label is visible (WCAG criterion undetermined) (rule↗) Serious 286 — 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 39 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 10 — 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 15 weeks (lower is better)
Critical Serious Moderate Minor W24W31W38150
Open findings by severity, by week
WeekCriticalSeriousModerateMinor
2026-W2429131
2026-W252981
2026-W2629131
2026-W2729121
2026-W2829151
2026-W2929131
2026-W3029121
2026-W3129151
2026-W3229151
2026-W3329131
2026-W3429131
2026-W3529151
2026-W3629121
2026-W3729141
2026-W3829121

Fixed this week

This week at a glance 24 issue type(s)

Median axe violations / page
1
Pages with axe violations
553 of 570 CSV
Median Alfa failures / page
50
Pages with Alfa failures
295 of 295 CSV
Unique pages audited
570
Lighthouse performance (median)
41/100 62 sampled details
Lighthouse SEO (median)
92/100
Lighthouse best practices (median)
73/100
Lighthouse agentic (median)
67/100
Words per page (median)
151 main content, nav excluded
Reading ease (median)
42 96 prose pages details
Reading grade (median)
15
Misspellings
25+ distinct details
Broken links
2 details
Median page weight
3.6 MB +18 KB worse
Median requests per page
71
Estimated energy per page (mean)
1.1194 Wh
Scan coverage this week (570 pages · 866 succeeded of 866 attempted)
Pages each engine ran on, per the configured weekly sampling rates.
EnginePagesCoverage
axe570100%
resources570100%
plain-language29852%
alfa29552%
standards28049%
sustainability6812%
lighthouse6211%
deprecated-html6111%
tech6011%
security499%

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

Changes since 2026-W37 2 change(s)

axe-core

No rule-level changes.

Alfa

  • Resolved: sia-r45 no longer fails on any scanned page.
  • Resolved: sia-r77 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)

320 distinct resources, by type.
TypeCount
PDF documents242
Archives (zip, etc.)62
Iframes10
Spreadsheets4
Embedded media players1
Images1