www.medicaid.gov: week 2026-W29
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Change this week
- New this week
- 0
- Fixed this week
- 0
- Regressed this week
- 4
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Fix these first
| Issue | Severity | Pages | Who it affects | How to fix | Evidence |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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
| Week | Critical | Serious | Moderate | Minor |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-W24 | 4 | 5 | 28 | 1 |
| 2026-W25 | 3 | 6 | 26 | 1 |
| 2026-W26 | 4 | 4 | 26 | 1 |
| 2026-W27 | 4 | 5 | 27 | 1 |
| 2026-W28 | 4 | 5 | 30 | 1 |
| 2026-W29 | 2 | 3 | 30 | 1 |
Dropped from this week's sample
- Critical VS-9074b4dd Images must have alternative text (WCAG 1.1.1)
- Moderate VS-a24eaa8c Image has accessible name (WCAG 1.1.1)
- Moderate VS-efd91fdd Link in text block is visually distinguishable without color (WCAG 1.4.1)
- Serious VS-e9fe47ac Links must have discernible text (WCAG 2.4.4)
- Moderate VS-28ebd979 Link has accessible name (WCAG 2.4.4)
- Critical VS-fab92378 Select element must have an accessible name (WCAG 4.1.2)
- Serious VS-be8d563e Elements must meet minimum color contrast ratio thresholds (WCAG 1.4.3)
- Moderate VS-388b5438 Scrollable element is keyboard accessible (WCAG 1.4.8)
- Moderate VS-3fb891c5 Input purpose can be determined (WCAG criterion undetermined)
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 details
- Lighthouse SEO (median)
- 100/100
- Lighthouse best practices (median)
- 96/100
- Lighthouse agentic (median)
- 100/100
- Words per page (median)
- 613
- Reading ease (median)
- 37
- 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)
| Engine | Pages | Coverage |
|---|---|---|
| axe | 8375 | 95% |
| resources | 8375 | 95% |
| standards | 4222 | 48% |
| plain-language | 4207 | 48% |
| alfa | 4123 | 47% |
| security | 891 | 10% |
| sustainability | 884 | 10% |
| lighthouse | 837 | 9% |
| tech | 816 | 9% |
| deprecated-html | 791 | 9% |
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
New this week (4248)
- http://medicaid.gov/medicaid/spa/downloads/NE-26-0004.pdf
- http://medicaid.gov/medicaid/spa/downloads/DE-26-0002.pdf
- http://medicaid.gov/medicaid/spa/downloads/OH-25-0014.pdf
- http://medicaid.gov/medicaid/spa/downloads/NH-25-0015.pdf
- http://medicaid.gov/medicaid/spa/downloads/PA-26-0008.pdf
- http://medicaid.gov/medicaid/spa/downloads/MO-25-0002.pdf
- http://medicaid.gov/medicaid/spa/downloads/CO-25-0035.pdf
- https://www.medicaid.gov/medicaid/spa/downloads/NE-26-0004.pdf
- https://www.medicaid.gov/medicaid/spa/downloads/OH-25-0014.pdf
- https://www.medicaid.gov/medicaid/spa/downloads/PA-26-0008.pdf
- http://medicaid.gov/medicaid-chip-program-information/by-topics/prescription-drugs/downloads/rx-releases/state-releases/state-rel-028.pdf
- http://medicaid.gov/medicaid-chip-program-information/by-topics/prescription-drugs/downloads/rx-releases/mfr-releases/mfr-rel-006.pdf
- http://medicaid.gov/medicaid-chip-program-information/by-topics/prescription-drugs/downloads/rx-releases/state-releases/state-rel-027.pdf
- http://medicaid.gov/medicaid-chip-program-information/by-topics/prescription-drugs/downloads/rx-releases/mfr-releases/mfr-rel-005.pdf
- http://medicaid.gov/medicaid-chip-program-information/by-topics/prescription-drugs/downloads/rx-releases/state-releases/state-rel-026.pdf
- http://medicaid.gov/medicaid-chip-program-information/by-topics/prescription-drugs/downloads/rx-releases/state-releases/state-rel-025.pdf
- http://medicaid.gov/medicaid-chip-program-information/by-topics/prescription-drugs/downloads/rx-releases/state-releases/state-rel-024.pdf
- http://medicaid.gov/medicaid-chip-program-information/by-topics/prescription-drugs/downloads/rx-releases/state-releases/state-rel-023.pdf
- http://medicaid.gov/medicaid-chip-program-information/by-topics/prescription-drugs/downloads/rx-releases/state-releases/state-rel-022.pdf
- http://medicaid.gov/medicaid-chip-program-information/by-topics/prescription-drugs/downloads/rx-releases/state-releases/state-rel-021.pdf
- http://medicaid.gov/State-resource-center/Medicaid-State-Plan-Amendments/Downloads/WI/WI-09-005-Ltr.pdf
- http://medicaid.gov/State-resource-center/Medicaid-State-Plan-Amendments/Downloads/WI/WI-09-005-Att.pdf
- http://medicaid.gov/State-resource-center/Medicaid-State-Plan-Amendments/Downloads/WI/WI-09-005-179.pdf
- http://medicaid.gov/State-resource-center/Medicaid-State-Plan-Amendments/Downloads/AK/AK-09-002-Ltr.pdf
- http://medicaid.gov/State-resource-center/Medicaid-State-Plan-Amendments/Downloads/AK/AK-09-002-Att.pdf
- http://medicaid.gov/State-resource-center/Medicaid-State-Plan-Amendments/Downloads/AK/AK-09-002-179.pdf
- http://medicaid.gov/State-resource-center/Medicaid-State-Plan-Amendments/Downloads/AK/AK-09-003-Ltr.pdf
- http://medicaid.gov/State-resource-center/Medicaid-State-Plan-Amendments/Downloads/AK/AK-09-003-Att.pdf
- http://medicaid.gov/State-resource-center/Medicaid-State-Plan-Amendments/Downloads/AK/AK-09-003-179.pdf
- http://medicaid.gov/State-resource-center/Medicaid-State-Plan-Amendments/Downloads/NJ/NJ-09-01-Ltr.pdf
- http://medicaid.gov/State-resource-center/Medicaid-State-Plan-Amendments/Downloads/NJ/NJ-09-01-Att.pdf
- http://medicaid.gov/State-resource-center/Medicaid-State-Plan-Amendments/Downloads/NJ/NJ-09-01-179.pdf
- http://medicaid.gov/State-resource-center/Medicaid-State-Plan-Amendments/Downloads/CA/CA-09-003-Ltr.pdf
- http://medicaid.gov/State-resource-center/Medicaid-State-Plan-Amendments/Downloads/CA/CA-09-003-Att.pdf
- http://medicaid.gov/State-resource-center/Medicaid-State-Plan-Amendments/Downloads/CA/CA-09-003-179.pdf
- http://medicaid.gov/State-resource-center/Medicaid-State-Plan-Amendments/Downloads/MD/MD-09-01-Ltr.pdf
- http://medicaid.gov/State-resource-center/Medicaid-State-Plan-Amendments/Downloads/MD/MD-09-01-Att.pdf
- http://medicaid.gov/State-resource-center/Medicaid-State-Plan-Amendments/Downloads/MD/MD-09-01-179.pdf
- http://medicaid.gov/State-resource-center/Medicaid-State-Plan-Amendments/Downloads/MD/MD-09-03-Ltr.pdf
- http://medicaid.gov/State-resource-center/Medicaid-State-Plan-Amendments/Downloads/MD/MD-09-03-Att.pdf
- http://medicaid.gov/State-resource-center/Medicaid-State-Plan-Amendments/Downloads/MD/MD-09-03-179.pdf
- http://medicaid.gov/medicaid/spa/downloads/AR-22-0027.pdf
- http://medicaid.gov/medicaid/spa/downloads/AR-22-0022.pdf
- http://medicaid.gov/medicaid/spa/downloads/AR-22-0019.pdf
- http://medicaid.gov/medicaid/spa/downloads/AR-22-0021.pdf
- http://medicaid.gov/medicaid/spa/downloads/AR-22-0025.pdf
- http://medicaid.gov/medicaid/spa/downloads/AR-22-0010.pdf
- http://medicaid.gov/medicaid/spa/downloads/AR-22-0016.pdf
- http://medicaid.gov/medicaid/spa/downloads/AR-22-0015.pdf
- http://medicaid.gov/medicaid/spa/downloads/AR-22-0013.pdf
- http://medicaid.gov/medicaid/spa/downloads/AR-22-0012.pdf
- http://medicaid.gov/federal-policy-guidance/downloads/SMD061197.pdf
- http://medicaid.gov/federal-policy-guidance/downloads/SMD060997.pdf
- http://medicaid.gov/federal-policy-guidance/downloads/SMD051497.pdf
- http://medicaid.gov/federal-policy-guidance/downloads/SMD050297b.pdf
- http://medicaid.gov/federal-policy-guidance/downloads/SMD050297.pdf
- http://medicaid.gov/federal-policy-guidance/downloads/SMD050197.pdf
- http://medicaid.gov/federal-policy-guidance/downloads/SMD042297.pdf
- http://medicaid.gov/federal-policy-guidance/downloads/SMD042197.pdf
- http://medicaid.gov/federal-policy-guidance/downloads/SMD020697.pdf
- http://medicaid.gov/federal-policy-guidance/downloads/SMD020597.pdf
- https://www.medicaid.gov/medicaid-chip-program-information/by-topics/prescription-drugs/downloads/state-pharmacy-spa-reprt-req.pdf
- https://www.medicaid.gov/medicaid/prescription-drugs/downloads/sra-table.pdf
- https://www.medicaid.gov/medicaid/prescription-drugs/downloads/medicaid-pharmacy-vbp-sra-map.pdf
- http://medicaid.gov/medicaid/spa/downloads/HI-21-0002.pdf
- http://medicaid.gov/medicaid/spa/downloads/HI-21-0004.pdf
- http://medicaid.gov/medicaid/spa/downloads/HI-21-0008.pdf
- http://medicaid.gov/medicaid/spa/downloads/HI-21-0001.pdf
- http://medicaid.gov/medicaid/spa/downloads/HI-21-0006.pdf
- http://medicaid.gov/medicaid/spa/downloads/HI-19-0005.pdf
- http://medicaid.gov/State-resource-center/Medicaid-State-Plan-Amendments/Downloads/HI/HI-20-0002_0.pdf
- http://medicaid.gov/State-resource-center/Medicaid-State-Plan-Amendments/Downloads/HI/HI-19-0007.pdf
- http://medicaid.gov/federal-policy-guidance/downloads/SMD011498.pdf
- http://medicaid.gov/federal-policy-guidance/downloads/sho011498.pdf
- http://medicaid.gov/federal-policy-guidance/downloads/SMD123097.pdf
- http://medicaid.gov/federal-policy-guidance/downloads/SMD123097b.pdf
- http://medicaid.gov/federal-policy-guidance/downloads/SMD121997.pdf
- http://medicaid.gov/federal-policy-guidance/downloads/smd121797.pdf
- http://medicaid.gov/federal-policy-guidance/downloads/SMD121797b.pdf
- http://medicaid.gov/federal-policy-guidance/downloads/SMD121797c.pdf
- http://medicaid.gov/federal-policy-guidance/downloads/SMD121797d.pdf
- http://medicaid.gov/federal-policy-guidance/downloads/SMD121597b.pdf
- http://medicaid.gov/federal-policy-guidance/downloads/sho101097.pdf
- http://medicaid.gov/federal-policy-guidance/downloads/SMD101097.pdf
- http://medicaid.gov/federal-policy-guidance/downloads/SMD100997.pdf
- http://medicaid.gov/federal-policy-guidance/downloads/SMD100697.pdf
- http://medicaid.gov/federal-policy-guidance/downloads/SMD100197.pdf
- http://medicaid.gov/federal-policy-guidance/downloads/SMD092297.pdf
- http://medicaid.gov/federal-policy-guidance/downloads/SMD091797.pdf
- http://medicaid.gov/federal-policy-guidance/downloads/SMD091597.pdf
- http://medicaid.gov/federal-policy-guidance/downloads/SMD082797.pdf
- http://medicaid.gov/federal-policy-guidance/downloads/SMD062597.pdf
- https://www.medicaid.gov/State-resource-center/Medicaid-State-Plan-Amendments/Downloads/SC/SC-13-009.pdf
- https://www.medicaid.gov/State-resource-center/Medicaid-State-Plan-Amendments/Downloads/SC/SC-13-005.pdf
- https://www.medicaid.gov/State-resource-center/Medicaid-State-Plan-Amendments/Downloads/SC/SC-13-025.pdf
- https://www.medicaid.gov/State-resource-center/Medicaid-State-Plan-Amendments/Downloads/SC/SC-13-0018-MM6.pdf
- https://www.medicaid.gov/State-resource-center/Medicaid-State-Plan-Amendments/Downloads/SC/SC-13-0015-MM2.pdf
- https://www.medicaid.gov/State-resource-center/Medicaid-State-Plan-Amendments/Downloads/SC/SC-13-0019-MM4.pdf
- https://www.medicaid.gov/State-resource-center/Medicaid-State-Plan-Amendments/Downloads/SC/SC-13-006.pdf
- https://www.medicaid.gov/State-resource-center/Medicaid-State-Plan-Amendments/Downloads/SC/SC-13-0014-MM1.pdf
| Type | Count |
|---|---|
| PDF documents | 11274 |
| Spreadsheets | 427 |
| Archives (zip, etc.) | 187 |
| Audio files | 179 |
| Word/text documents | 10 |
| Presentations | 3 |
| Embedded media players | 3 |
| Images | 1 |