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www.healthcare.gov: week 2026-W40

This is the 2026-W40 ISO-week report (1140 pages fetched, 1138 unique pages audited by axe/Alfa). Generated 2026-09-30. Compared against 2026-W39 (1138 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: 14 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).

New this week
0
Fixed this week
2
Regressed this week
3

Over the whole history of this site, 1152 unique pages have been scanned at least once; 1125 have known accessibility issues. 1125 of them were re-checked this ISO week. Download full data (JSON).

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 1102 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 555 — 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 555 — See remediation guidance: https://alfa.siteimprove.com/rules/sia-r111 pages (CSV)
aria attribute is permitted for element role (WCAG criterion undetermined) (rule↗) Moderate 532 — Only use ARIA states/properties that are allowed on this element/role. pages (CSV)
Form field label is visible (WCAG criterion undetermined) (rule↗) Moderate 532 — 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 96 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 24 — 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 16 — 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 17 weeks (lower is better)
Critical Serious Moderate Minor W24W32W40190

Fixed this week

This week at a glance 26 issue type(s)
Median axe violations / page
1
Pages with axe violations
1102 of 1138 CSV
Median Alfa failures / page
50
Pages with Alfa failures
555 of 555 CSV
Unique pages audited
1138
Lighthouse performance (median)
38/100 122 sampled details
Lighthouse SEO (median)
92/100
Lighthouse best practices (median)
73/100
Lighthouse agentic (median)
67/100
Words per page (median)
136 main content, nav excluded
Reading ease (median)
43.7 175 prose pages details
Reading grade (median)
14
Misspellings
25+ distinct details
Broken links
5 details
Median page weight
3.6 MB +8 KB worse
Median requests per page
71
Estimated energy per page (mean)
1.1174 Wh

Note: page counts differ between weeks (1138 → 1140). Prefer the "pages affected" columns over raw instance counts when comparing.

Scan coverage this week (1140 pages · 1732 succeeded of 1734 attempted)
Pages each engine ran on, per the configured weekly sampling rates.
EnginePagesCoverage
axe1138100%
resources1138100%
plain-language56950%
alfa55549%
standards55549%
deprecated-html13612%
lighthouse12211%
security11910%
sustainability11110%
tech1009%

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

Changes since 2026-W39 5 change(s)

axe-core

  • Resolved: link-in-text-block no longer fails on any scanned page.

Alfa

  • New: sia-r86 appeared this week.
  • New: sia-r45 appeared this week.
  • New: sia-r77 appeared this week.
  • 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 (14)

347 distinct resources, by type.
TypeCount
PDF documents262
Archives (zip, etc.)62
Iframes17
Spreadsheets4
Embedded media players1
Images1