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www.medicaid.gov: week 2026-W29

This is the 2026-W29 ISO-week report (8816 pages fetched, 8375 unique pages audited by axe/Alfa). Generated 2026-07-24. Compared against 2026-W28 (8593 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: 10 required finding type(s) (handling: review). Aspirational queue: 0 finding type(s). Advisory queue: 0 finding type(s). Unmapped review queue: 9 finding type(s).

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
Text has enhanced contrast (WCAG 1.4.6) (rule↗) Moderate 4123 — 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 4123 — See remediation guidance: https://alfa.siteimprove.com/rules/sia-r111 pages (CSV)
Scrolling content can be accessed by keyboard (WCAG criterion undetermined) (rule↗) Moderate 4120 — See remediation guidance: https://alfa.siteimprove.com/rules/sia-r57 pages (CSV)
All page content should be contained by landmarks (WCAG criterion undetermined) (rule↗) Moderate 3909 — 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↗) Moderate 3900 — 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↗) Moderate 3896 — Each page should have exactly one <main> landmark. pages (CSV)
Text has minimum contrast ratio of 4.5:1 (WCAG 1.4.8) (rule↗) Moderate 2201 — See remediation guidance: https://alfa.siteimprove.com/rules/sia-r73 pages (CSV)
First focusable element is link to main content (WCAG criterion undetermined) (rule↗) Moderate 1931 — See remediation guidance: https://alfa.siteimprove.com/rules/sia-r87 pages (CSV)

Progress

Open findings by severity over 6 weeks (lower is better)
Critical Serious Moderate Minor W24W26W29300

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 36 issue type(s)
Median axe violations / page
4
Pages with axe violations
4945 of 8375
Median Alfa failures / page
69
Pages with Alfa failures
4123 of 4123
Unique pages audited
8375
Lighthouse performance (median)
74/100 834 sampled details
Lighthouse SEO (median)
100/100
Lighthouse best practices (median)
96/100
Lighthouse agentic (median)
100/100
Words per page (median)
613 main content, nav excluded
Reading ease (median)
37 1190 prose pages
Reading grade (median)
16
Misspellings
25+ distinct details
Broken links
2 details
Median page weight
1.6 MB +893 KB worse
Median requests per page
107
Estimated energy per page (mean)
0.3932 Wh

Note: page counts differ between weeks (8593 → 8816). Prefer the "pages affected" columns over raw instance counts when comparing.

Scan coverage this week (8816 pages · 8375 succeeded of 8684 attempted)
Pages each engine ran on, per the configured weekly sampling rates.
EnginePagesCoverage
axe837595%
resources837595%
standards422248%
plain-language420748%
alfa412347%
security89110%
sustainability88410%
lighthouse8379%
tech8169%
deprecated-html7919%

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

Changes since 2026-W28 27 change(s)

axe-core

  • New: landmark-contentinfo-is-top-level appeared this week.
  • New: landmark-no-duplicate-contentinfo appeared this week.
  • Resolved: image-alt no longer fails on any scanned page.
  • Resolved: link-name no longer fails on any scanned page.
  • Resolved: select-name no longer fails on any scanned page.
  • Resolved: color-contrast no longer fails on any scanned page.
  • landmark-one-main shrank: 5226 → 3896 pages affected (rate: 62% → 47% of pages scanned).
  • page-has-heading-one shrank: 5237 → 3900 pages affected (rate: 62% → 47% of pages scanned).
  • region shrank: 5249 → 3909 pages affected (rate: 62% → 47% of pages scanned).
  • aria-allowed-attr shrank: 1311 → 844 pages affected (rate: 16% → 10% of pages scanned).
  • aria-required-children shrank: 1311 → 844 pages affected (rate: 16% → 10% of pages scanned).
  • heading-order shrank: 615 → 398 pages affected (rate: 7% → 5% of pages scanned).

Alfa

  • New: sia-r46 appeared this week.
  • New: sia-r77 appeared this week.
  • New: sia-r71 appeared this week.
  • Resolved: sia-r2 no longer fails on any scanned page.
  • Resolved: sia-r11 no longer fails on any scanned page.
  • Resolved: sia-r60 no longer fails on any scanned page.
  • Resolved: sia-r62 no longer fails on any scanned page.
  • Resolved: sia-r80 no longer fails on any scanned page.
  • sia-r73 spread: 1590 → 2201 pages affected (rate: 38% → 53% of pages scanned).
  • sia-r68 shrank: 858 → 675 pages affected (rate: 20% → 16% of pages scanned).
  • sia-r18 shrank: 656 → 419 pages affected (rate: 16% → 10% of pages scanned).
  • sia-r14 shrank: 1325 → 975 pages affected (rate: 32% → 24% of pages scanned).
  • sia-r61 shrank: 2608 → 1917 pages affected (rate: 62% → 46% of pages scanned).
  • sia-r87 shrank: 2621 → 1931 pages affected (rate: 62% → 47% of pages scanned).
  • sia-r53 shrank: 313 → 205 pages affected (rate: 7% → 5% 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 (4248)

12084 distinct resources, by type.
TypeCount
PDF documents11274
Spreadsheets427
Archives (zip, etc.)187
Audio files179
Word/text documents10
Presentations3
Embedded media players3
Images1