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www.medicaid.gov: week 2026-W35

This is the 2026-W35 ISO-week report (6990 pages fetched, 6409 unique pages audited by axe/Alfa). Generated 2026-08-30. Compared against 2026-W34 (6585 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: 11 required finding type(s) (handling: review). Aspirational queue: 0 finding type(s). Advisory queue: 0 finding type(s). Unmapped review queue: 8 finding type(s).

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
All page content should be contained by landmarks (WCAG criterion undetermined) (rule↗) Serious 4297 — 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↗) Serious 4277 — Each page should have exactly one <main> landmark. pages (CSV)
Page should contain a level-one heading (WCAG criterion undetermined) (rule↗) Serious 4265 — See remediation guidance: https://dequeuniversity.com/rules/axe/4.12/page-has-heading-one?application=axeAPI pages (CSV)
Text has enhanced contrast (WCAG 1.4.6) (rule↗) Moderate 3178 — 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 3178 — See remediation guidance: https://alfa.siteimprove.com/rules/sia-r111 pages (CSV)
Scrolling content can be accessed by keyboard (WCAG criterion undetermined) (rule↗) Moderate 3177 — See remediation guidance: https://alfa.siteimprove.com/rules/sia-r57 pages (CSV)
Elements must only use supported ARIA attributes (WCAG 4.1.2) (rule↗) Critical 1325 Without vision, Limited vision Remove ARIA attributes that aren't allowed on this role/element. pages (CSV)
Certain ARIA roles must contain particular children (WCAG 1.3.1) (rule↗) Critical 1325 Without vision, Limited vision Add the child roles this container role requires (e.g. a list needs listitem children). pages (CSV)

Progress

Open findings by severity over 12 weeks (lower is better)
Critical Serious Moderate Minor W24W29W35270

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
6
Pages with axe violations
5238 of 6409
Median Alfa failures / page
67
Pages with Alfa failures
3178 of 3178
Unique pages audited
6409
Lighthouse performance (median)
76/100 669 sampled details
Lighthouse SEO (median)
92/100
Lighthouse best practices (median)
96/100
Lighthouse agentic (median)
100/100
Words per page (median)
578 main content, nav excluded
Reading ease (median)
45.2 867 prose pages
Reading grade (median)
15.1
Misspellings
25+ distinct details
Broken links
6 details
Median page weight
901 KB -837 KB better
Median requests per page
29
Estimated energy per page (mean)
0.4491 Wh

Note: page counts differ between weeks (6585 → 6990). Prefer the "pages affected" columns over raw instance counts when comparing.

Scan coverage this week (6990 pages · 6543 succeeded of 6976 attempted)
Pages each engine ran on, per the configured weekly sampling rates.
EnginePagesCoverage
axe640992%
resources640992%
plain-language319846%
alfa317845%
standards314945%
sustainability68110%
lighthouse67810%
tech66510%
deprecated-html6439%
security6299%

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

Changes since 2026-W34 23 change(s)

axe-core

  • New: scope-attr-valid appeared this week.
  • New: select-name appeared this week.
  • Resolved: color-contrast no longer fails on any scanned page.
  • Resolved: landmark-main-is-top-level no longer fails on any scanned page.
  • Resolved: landmark-no-duplicate-main no longer fails on any scanned page.
  • Resolved: image-alt no longer fails on any scanned page.
  • Resolved: link-name no longer fails on any scanned page.
  • landmark-one-main spread: 1414 → 4277 pages affected (rate: 22% → 67% of pages scanned).
  • page-has-heading-one spread: 1423 → 4265 pages affected (rate: 22% → 67% of pages scanned).
  • region spread: 1420 → 4297 pages affected (rate: 22% → 67% of pages scanned).
  • aria-allowed-role spread: 239 → 629 pages affected (rate: 4% → 10% of pages scanned).
  • aria-input-field-name spread: 236 → 626 pages affected (rate: 4% → 10% of pages scanned).
  • aria-allowed-attr spread: 297 → 1325 pages affected (rate: 5% → 21% of pages scanned).
  • aria-required-children spread: 297 → 1325 pages affected (rate: 5% → 21% of pages scanned).

Alfa

  • Resolved: sia-r85 no longer fails on any scanned page.
  • sia-r61 spread: 701 → 2104 pages affected (rate: 22% → 66% of pages scanned).
  • sia-r87 spread: 700 → 2120 pages affected (rate: 22% → 67% of pages scanned).
  • sia-r73 shrank: 2441 → 1059 pages affected (rate: 78% → 33% of pages scanned).
  • sia-r8 spread: 113 → 299 pages affected (rate: 4% → 9% of pages scanned).
  • sia-r113 spread: 113 → 298 pages affected (rate: 4% → 9% of pages scanned).
  • sia-r14 spread: 341 → 1279 pages affected (rate: 11% → 40% of pages scanned).
  • sia-r68 spread: 255 → 921 pages affected (rate: 8% → 29% of pages scanned).
  • sia-r18 spread: 150 → 647 pages affected (rate: 5% → 20% 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 (10365)

10986 distinct resources, by type.
TypeCount
PDF documents10116
Spreadsheets538
Audio files158
Archives (zip, etc.)138
Word/text documents29
Presentations2
Embedded media players2
Images2
Video files1