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www.medicaid.gov: week 2026-W32

This is the 2026-W32 ISO-week report (6885 pages fetched, 6286 unique pages audited by axe/Alfa). Generated 2026-08-09. Compared against 2026-W31 (7478 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: 8 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
3

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 3201 — 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 3201 — See remediation guidance: https://alfa.siteimprove.com/rules/sia-r111 pages (CSV)
Scrolling content can be accessed by keyboard (WCAG criterion undetermined) (rule↗) Moderate 3199 — 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 2446 — See remediation guidance: https://alfa.siteimprove.com/rules/sia-r73 pages (CSV)
Page should contain a level-one heading (WCAG criterion undetermined) (rule↗) Moderate 1550 — See remediation guidance: https://dequeuniversity.com/rules/axe/4.12/page-has-heading-one?application=axeAPI pages (CSV)
All page content should be contained by landmarks (WCAG criterion undetermined) (rule↗) Moderate 1548 — Wrap all page content in landmarks (header, nav, main, footer) so users can navigate by region. pages (CSV)
Document should have one main landmark (WCAG criterion undetermined) (rule↗) Moderate 1544 — Each page should have exactly one <main> landmark. pages (CSV)
First focusable element is link to main content (WCAG criterion undetermined) (rule↗) Moderate 759 — See remediation guidance: https://alfa.siteimprove.com/rules/sia-r87 pages (CSV)

Progress

Open findings by severity over 9 weeks (lower is better)
Critical Serious Moderate Minor W24W28W32300
Open findings by severity, by week
WeekCriticalSeriousModerateMinor
2026-W2445281
2026-W2536261
2026-W2644261
2026-W2745271
2026-W2845301
2026-W2923301
2026-W3045291
2026-W3123251
2026-W3223271

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 33 issue type(s)

Median axe violations / page
0
Pages with axe violations
1899 of 6286
Median Alfa failures / page
72
Pages with Alfa failures
3201 of 3201
Unique pages audited
6286
Lighthouse performance (median)
72/100 617 sampled details
Lighthouse SEO (median)
100/100
Lighthouse best practices (median)
100/100
Lighthouse agentic (median)
100/100
Words per page (median)
698 main content, nav excluded
Reading ease (median)
35 1164 prose pages
Reading grade (median)
17
Misspellings
25+ distinct details
Broken links
3 details
Median page weight
1.7 MB +5 KB worse
Median requests per page
155
Estimated energy per page (mean)
0.4378 Wh

Note: page counts differ between weeks (7478 → 6885). Prefer the "pages affected" columns over raw instance counts when comparing.

Scan coverage this week (6885 pages · 6286 succeeded of 6844 attempted)
Pages each engine ran on, per the configured weekly sampling rates.
EnginePagesCoverage
axe628691%
resources628691%
alfa320146%
standards318246%
plain-language312845%
sustainability67110%
deprecated-html66010%
security6519%
lighthouse6379%
tech6119%

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

Changes since 2026-W31 13 change(s)

axe-core

  • New: landmark-contentinfo-is-top-level appeared this week.
  • New: landmark-no-duplicate-contentinfo appeared this week.
  • landmark-one-main shrank: 2274 → 1544 pages affected (rate: 34% → 25% of pages scanned).
  • page-has-heading-one shrank: 2278 → 1550 pages affected (rate: 34% → 25% of pages scanned).
  • region shrank: 2279 → 1548 pages affected (rate: 34% → 25% of pages scanned).

Alfa

  • New: sia-r60 appeared this week.
  • Resolved: sia-r62 no longer fails on any scanned page.
  • sia-r61 shrank: 1136 → 758 pages affected (rate: 34% → 24% of pages scanned).
  • sia-r87 shrank: 1142 → 759 pages affected (rate: 34% → 24% of pages scanned).
  • sia-r73 spread: 2182 → 2446 pages affected (rate: 66% → 76% of pages scanned).
  • sia-r14 shrank: 589 → 373 pages affected (rate: 18% → 12% of pages scanned).
  • sia-r68 shrank: 383 → 258 pages affected (rate: 12% → 8% of pages scanned).
  • sia-r18 shrank: 241 → 167 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 (344)

5034 distinct resources, by type.
TypeCount
PDF documents4814
Spreadsheets124
Archives (zip, etc.)69
Audio files18
Word/text documents6
Presentations2
Images1