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www.medicaid.gov: week 2026-W30

This is the 2026-W30 ISO-week report (7314 pages fetched, 7075 unique pages audited by axe/Alfa). Generated 2026-07-26. Compared against 2026-W29 (8816 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: 16 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
1
Regressed this week
7

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 3490 — 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 3490 — See remediation guidance: https://alfa.siteimprove.com/rules/sia-r111 pages (CSV)
Scrolling content can be accessed by keyboard (WCAG criterion undetermined) (rule↗) Moderate 3486 — See remediation guidance: https://alfa.siteimprove.com/rules/sia-r57 pages (CSV)
Text has minimum contrast ratio of 4.5:1 (WCAG 1.4.8) (rule↗) Moderate 2380 — See remediation guidance: https://alfa.siteimprove.com/rules/sia-r73 pages (CSV)
All page content should be contained by landmarks (WCAG criterion undetermined) (rule↗) Moderate 2256 — 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 2252 — 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 2246 — Each page should have exactly one <main> landmark. pages (CSV)
First focusable element is link to main content (WCAG criterion undetermined) (rule↗) Moderate 1116 — See remediation guidance: https://alfa.siteimprove.com/rules/sia-r87 pages (CSV)

Progress

Open findings by severity over 7 weeks (lower is better)
Critical Serious Moderate Minor W24W27W30300

Fixed this week

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 39 issue type(s)
Median axe violations / page
0
Pages with axe violations
3001 of 7075
Median Alfa failures / page
72
Pages with Alfa failures
3490 of 3490
Unique pages audited
7075
Lighthouse performance (median)
72/100 707 sampled details
Lighthouse SEO (median)
100/100
Lighthouse best practices (median)
100/100
Lighthouse agentic (median)
100/100
Words per page (median)
665 main content, nav excluded
Reading ease (median)
35 1124 prose pages
Reading grade (median)
17
Misspellings
25+ distinct details
Broken links
2 details
Median page weight
1.7 MB +87 KB worse
Median requests per page
155
Estimated energy per page (mean)
0.4468 Wh

Note: page counts differ between weeks (8816 → 7314). Prefer the "pages affected" columns over raw instance counts when comparing.

Scan coverage this week (7314 pages · 7075 succeeded of 7240 attempted)
Pages each engine ran on, per the configured weekly sampling rates.
EnginePagesCoverage
axe707597%
resources707597%
standards356949%
plain-language356049%
alfa349048%
security75310%
sustainability74710%
tech72410%
lighthouse71010%
deprecated-html6739%

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

Changes since 2026-W29 22 change(s)

axe-core

  • New: image-alt appeared this week.
  • New: link-name appeared this week.
  • New: color-contrast appeared this week.
  • New: select-name appeared this week.
  • 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.
  • landmark-one-main shrank: 3896 → 2246 pages affected (rate: 47% → 32% of pages scanned).
  • page-has-heading-one shrank: 3900 → 2252 pages affected (rate: 47% → 32% of pages scanned).
  • region shrank: 3909 → 2256 pages affected (rate: 47% → 32% of pages scanned).
  • aria-allowed-attr shrank: 844 → 477 pages affected (rate: 10% → 7% of pages scanned).
  • aria-required-children shrank: 844 → 477 pages affected (rate: 10% → 7% of pages scanned).

Alfa

  • New: sia-r2 appeared this week.
  • New: sia-r11 appeared this week.
  • New: sia-r62 appeared this week.
  • Resolved: sia-r77 no longer fails on any scanned page.
  • Resolved: sia-r71 no longer fails on any scanned page.
  • sia-r61 shrank: 1917 → 1108 pages affected (rate: 46% → 32% of pages scanned).
  • sia-r87 shrank: 1931 → 1116 pages affected (rate: 47% → 32% of pages scanned).
  • sia-r73 spread: 2201 → 2380 pages affected (rate: 53% → 68% of pages scanned).
  • sia-r68 shrank: 675 → 462 pages affected (rate: 16% → 13% of pages scanned).
  • sia-r18 shrank: 419 → 246 pages affected (rate: 10% → 7% of pages scanned).
  • sia-r14 shrank: 975 → 563 pages affected (rate: 24% → 16% 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 (3242)

9543 distinct resources, by type.
TypeCount
PDF documents9011
Spreadsheets262
Archives (zip, etc.)190
Audio files50
Word/text documents26
Presentations1
Embedded media players1
SVG1
Images1