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www.medicaid.gov: week 2026-W31

This is the 2026-W31 ISO-week report (7478 pages fetched, 6787 unique pages audited by axe/Alfa). Generated 2026-08-02. Compared against 2026-W30 (7314 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: 9 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).

Change this week

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

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 3319 — 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 3319 — See remediation guidance: https://alfa.siteimprove.com/rules/sia-r111 pages (CSV)
Scrolling content can be accessed by keyboard (WCAG criterion undetermined) (rule↗) Moderate 3317 — 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 2279 — 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 2278 — 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 2274 — 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 2182 — 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 1142 — See remediation guidance: https://alfa.siteimprove.com/rules/sia-r87 pages (CSV)

Progress

Open findings by severity over 8 weeks (lower is better)
Critical Serious Moderate Minor W24W27W31300
Open findings by severity, by week
WeekCriticalSeriousModerateMinor
2026-W2445281
2026-W2536261
2026-W2644261
2026-W2745271
2026-W2845301
2026-W2923301
2026-W3045291
2026-W3123251

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 31 issue type(s)

Median axe violations / page
0
Pages with axe violations
2787 of 6787
Median Alfa failures / page
72
Pages with Alfa failures
3319 of 3319
Unique pages audited
6787
Lighthouse performance (median)
73/100 614 sampled details
Lighthouse SEO (median)
100/100
Lighthouse best practices (median)
100/100
Lighthouse agentic (median)
100/100
Words per page (median)
682 main content, nav excluded
Reading ease (median)
35.4 1135 prose pages
Reading grade (median)
16.9
Misspellings
25+ distinct details
Broken links
2 details
Median page weight
1.7 MB +3 KB worse
Median requests per page
155
Estimated energy per page (mean)
0.4095 Wh

Note: page counts differ between weeks (7314 → 7478). Prefer the "pages affected" columns over raw instance counts when comparing.

Scan coverage this week (7478 pages · 6787 succeeded of 7390 attempted)
Pages each engine ran on, per the configured weekly sampling rates.
EnginePagesCoverage
axe678791%
resources678791%
standards341446%
plain-language338345%
alfa331944%
sustainability81011%
tech71410%
security6919%
deprecated-html6308%
lighthouse6278%

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

Changes since 2026-W30 15 change(s)

axe-core

  • Resolved: image-alt no longer fails on any scanned page.
  • Resolved: link-name no longer fails on any scanned page.
  • Resolved: color-contrast no longer fails on any scanned page.
  • Resolved: scope-attr-valid no longer fails on any scanned page.
  • Resolved: select-name no longer fails on any scanned page.
  • aria-allowed-role shrank: 487 → 311 pages affected (rate: 7% → 5% of pages scanned).
  • aria-input-field-name shrank: 484 → 308 pages affected (rate: 7% → 5% of pages scanned).

Alfa

  • Resolved: sia-r2 no longer fails on any scanned page.
  • Resolved: sia-r11 no longer fails on any scanned page.
  • Resolved: sia-r46 no longer fails on any scanned page.
  • sia-r73 shrank: 2380 → 2182 pages affected (rate: 68% → 66% of pages scanned).
  • sia-r61 spread: 1108 → 1136 pages affected (rate: 32% → 34% of pages scanned).
  • sia-r87 spread: 1116 → 1142 pages affected (rate: 32% → 34% of pages scanned).
  • sia-r8 shrank: 229 → 149 pages affected (rate: 7% → 4% of pages scanned).
  • sia-r113 shrank: 228 → 149 pages affected (rate: 7% → 4% 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 (948)

7314 distinct resources, by type.
TypeCount
PDF documents6890
Spreadsheets220
Archives (zip, etc.)89
Audio files77
Word/text documents19
Images17
Presentations2