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www.medicaid.gov: week 2026-W34

This is the 2026-W34 ISO-week report (6585 pages fetched, 6358 unique pages audited by axe/Alfa). Generated 2026-08-23. Compared against 2026-W33 (6890 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: 12 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
2

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 3139 — 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 3139 — See remediation guidance: https://alfa.siteimprove.com/rules/sia-r111 pages (CSV)
Scrolling content can be accessed by keyboard (WCAG criterion undetermined) (rule↗) Moderate 3136 — 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 2441 — See remediation guidance: https://alfa.siteimprove.com/rules/sia-r73 pages (CSV)
Page should contain a level-one heading (WCAG criterion undetermined) (rule↗) Moderate 1423 — 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 1420 — 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 1414 — Each page should have exactly one <main> landmark. pages (CSV)
Form field label is visible (WCAG criterion undetermined) (rule↗) Moderate 701 — See remediation guidance: https://alfa.siteimprove.com/rules/sia-r61 pages (CSV)

Progress

Open findings by severity over 11 weeks (lower is better)
Critical Serious Moderate Minor W24W29W34300
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
2026-W3344281
2026-W3435251

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 34 issue type(s)

Median axe violations / page
0
Pages with axe violations
2014 of 6358
Median Alfa failures / page
77
Pages with Alfa failures
3139 of 3139
Unique pages audited
6358
Lighthouse performance (median)
70/100 624 sampled details
Lighthouse SEO (median)
100/100
Lighthouse best practices (median)
100/100
Lighthouse agentic (median)
100/100
Words per page (median)
683 main content, nav excluded
Reading ease (median)
35.2 1143 prose pages
Reading grade (median)
16.9
Misspellings
25+ distinct details
Broken links
2 details
Median page weight
1.7 MB no change
Median requests per page
156
Estimated energy per page (mean)
0.466 Wh

Note: page counts differ between weeks (6890 → 6585). Prefer the "pages affected" columns over raw instance counts when comparing.

Scan coverage this week (6585 pages · 6358 succeeded of 6535 attempted)
Pages each engine ran on, per the configured weekly sampling rates.
EnginePagesCoverage
axe635897%
resources635897%
standards322449%
plain-language319348%
alfa313948%
sustainability66710%
lighthouse64710%
deprecated-html6179%
tech6149%
security6139%

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

Changes since 2026-W33 9 change(s)

axe-core

  • New: color-contrast appeared this week.
  • Resolved: select-name no longer fails on any scanned page.
  • heading-order spread: 169 → 341 pages affected (rate: 3% → 5% of pages scanned).

Alfa

  • New: sia-r62 appeared this week.
  • Resolved: sia-r46 no longer fails on any scanned page.
  • Resolved: sia-r77 no longer fails on any scanned page.
  • Resolved: sia-r2 no longer fails on any scanned page.
  • Resolved: sia-r11 no longer fails on any scanned page.
  • sia-r53 spread: 76 → 167 pages affected (rate: 2% → 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 (4989)

10214 distinct resources, by type.
TypeCount
PDF documents9320
Spreadsheets568
Archives (zip, etc.)181
Audio files73
Word/text documents43
Images18
Embedded media players7
Presentations3
Video files1