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www.medicaid.gov: week 2026-W26

This is the 2026-W26 ISO-week report (8291 pages fetched, 8191 unique pages audited by axe/Alfa). Generated 2026-07-13. Compared against 2026-W25 (8293 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: 10 finding type(s).

Change this week

New this week
0
Fixed this week
0
Regressed this week
4

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
All page content should be contained by landmarks (WCAG criterion undetermined) (rule↗) Serious 6382 — Wrap all page content in landmarks (header, nav, main, footer) so users can navigate by region. pages (CSV)
Page should contain a level-one heading (WCAG criterion undetermined) (rule↗) Serious 6356 — See remediation guidance: https://dequeuniversity.com/rules/axe/4.12/page-has-heading-one?application=axeAPI pages (CSV)
Document should have one main landmark (WCAG criterion undetermined) (rule↗) Serious 6351 — Each page should have exactly one <main> landmark. pages (CSV)
Text has enhanced contrast (WCAG 1.4.6) (rule↗) Moderate 4074 — Increase text contrast to meet WCAG AAA (7:1). pages (CSV)
Target size is at least 44×44 CSS pixels (Enhanced) (WCAG 2.5.5) (rule↗) Moderate 4074 — See remediation guidance: https://alfa.siteimprove.com/rules/sia-r111 pages (CSV)
Scrolling content can be accessed by keyboard (WCAG criterion undetermined) (rule↗) Moderate 4072 — See remediation guidance: https://alfa.siteimprove.com/rules/sia-r57 pages (CSV)
Elements must only use supported ARIA attributes (WCAG 4.1.2) (rule↗) Critical 1495 Without vision, Limited vision Remove ARIA attributes that aren't allowed on this role/element. pages (CSV)
First focusable element is link to main content (WCAG criterion undetermined) (rule↗) Moderate 3176 — See remediation guidance: https://alfa.siteimprove.com/rules/sia-r87 pages (CSV)

Progress

Open findings by severity over 3 weeks (lower is better)
Critical Serious Moderate Minor W24W25W26250
Open findings by severity, by week
WeekCriticalSeriousModerateMinor
2026-W2448251
2026-W2539231
2026-W2647231

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 35 issue type(s)

Median axe violations / page
6
Pages with axe violations
7165 of 8191
Median Alfa failures / page
46
Pages with Alfa failures
4074 of 4074
Unique pages audited
8191
Lighthouse performance (median)
90/100 797 sampled details
Lighthouse SEO (median)
92/100
Lighthouse best practices (median)
96/100
Lighthouse agentic (median)
100/100
Words per page (median)
408 main content, nav excluded
Reading ease (median)
37 1230 prose pages
Reading grade (median)
16
Misspellings
25+ distinct details
Broken links
2 details
Median page weight
747 KB -1 KB better
Median requests per page
27
Estimated energy per page (mean)
0.4231 Wh

Note: page counts differ between weeks (8293 → 8291). Prefer the "pages affected" columns over raw instance counts when comparing.

Scan coverage this week (8291 pages · 8340 succeeded of 8341 attempted)
Pages each engine ran on, per the configured weekly sampling rates.
EnginePagesCoverage
axe819199%
resources819199%
standards415750%
plain-language411050%
alfa407449%
security84710%
sustainability82310%
tech81810%
lighthouse79710%
deprecated-html7669%

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

Changes since 2026-W25 21 change(s)

axe-core

  • Resolved: color-contrast no longer fails on any scanned page.
  • Resolved: nested-interactive no longer fails on any scanned page.
  • Resolved: landmark-contentinfo-is-top-level no longer fails on any scanned page.
  • Resolved: landmark-no-duplicate-contentinfo no longer fails on any scanned page.
  • Resolved: scope-attr-valid no longer fails on any scanned page.
  • landmark-one-main spread: 5978 → 6351 pages affected (rate: 74% → 78% of pages scanned).
  • page-has-heading-one spread: 5984 → 6356 pages affected (rate: 74% → 78% of pages scanned).
  • region spread: 6004 → 6382 pages affected (rate: 74% → 78% of pages scanned).
  • aria-allowed-attr shrank: 1743 → 1495 pages affected (rate: 22% → 18% of pages scanned).
  • aria-required-children shrank: 1743 → 1495 pages affected (rate: 22% → 18% of pages scanned).
  • heading-order shrank: 519 → 300 pages affected (rate: 6% → 4% of pages scanned).

Alfa

  • Resolved: sia-r80 no longer fails on any scanned page.
  • sia-r73 spread: 863 → 909 pages affected (rate: 27% → 22% of pages scanned).
  • sia-r61 spread: 2341 → 3157 pages affected (rate: 73% → 77% of pages scanned).
  • sia-r87 spread: 2368 → 3176 pages affected (rate: 74% → 78% of pages scanned).
  • sia-r68 spread: 919 → 971 pages affected (rate: 29% → 24% of pages scanned).
  • sia-r18 spread: 689 → 762 pages affected (rate: 21% → 19% of pages scanned).
  • sia-r14 spread: 1216 → 1732 pages affected (rate: 38% → 43% of pages scanned).
  • sia-r53 shrank: 211 → 143 pages affected (rate: 7% → 4% of pages scanned).
  • sia-r8 shrank: 256 → 227 pages affected (rate: 8% → 6% of pages scanned).
  • sia-r113 shrank: 257 → 226 pages affected (rate: 8% → 6% 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 (6803)

9851 distinct resources, by type.
TypeCount
PDF documents9186
Spreadsheets350
Archives (zip, etc.)169
Audio files95
Word/text documents45
Video files2
Images2
Embedded media players1
Presentations1