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www.medicaid.gov: week 2026-W37

This is the 2026-W37 ISO-week report (7188 pages fetched, 6869 unique pages audited by axe/Alfa). Generated 2026-09-13. Compared against 2026-W36 (6575 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: 10 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
8

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 3430 — 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 3430 — See remediation guidance: https://alfa.siteimprove.com/rules/sia-r111 pages (CSV)
Scrolling content can be accessed by keyboard (WCAG criterion undetermined) (rule↗) Moderate 3428 — 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 2552 — See remediation guidance: https://alfa.siteimprove.com/rules/sia-r73 pages (CSV)
Document should have one main landmark (WCAG criterion undetermined) (rule↗) Moderate 1732 — Each page should have exactly one <main> landmark. pages (CSV)
All page content should be contained by landmarks (WCAG criterion undetermined) (rule↗) Moderate 1732 — 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 1731 — See remediation guidance: https://dequeuniversity.com/rules/axe/4.12/page-has-heading-one?application=axeAPI pages (CSV)
Elements must only use supported ARIA attributes (WCAG 4.1.2) (rule↗) Critical 425 Without vision, Limited vision Remove ARIA attributes that aren't allowed on this role/element. pages (CSV)

Progress

Open findings by severity over 14 weeks (lower is better)
Critical Serious Moderate Minor W24W30W37300

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
2139 of 6869
Median Alfa failures / page
78
Pages with Alfa failures
3430 of 3430
Unique pages audited
6869
Lighthouse performance (median)
69/100 688 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)
35.8 1061 prose pages
Reading grade (median)
16.9
Misspellings
25+ distinct details
Broken links
1 details
Median page weight
1.7 MB +840 KB worse
Median requests per page
156
Estimated energy per page (mean)
0.4573 Wh

Note: page counts differ between weeks (6575 → 7188). Prefer the "pages affected" columns over raw instance counts when comparing.

Scan coverage this week (7188 pages · 6869 succeeded of 7154 attempted)
Pages each engine ran on, per the configured weekly sampling rates.
EnginePagesCoverage
axe686996%
resources686996%
alfa343048%
standards342248%
plain-language341648%
tech72510%
sustainability71710%
security71310%
lighthouse69510%
deprecated-html69110%

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

Changes since 2026-W36 21 change(s)

axe-core

  • New: aria-prohibited-attr appeared this week.
  • New: label-title-only appeared this week.
  • Resolved: scope-attr-valid no longer fails on any scanned page.
  • landmark-one-main shrank: 3991 → 1732 pages affected (rate: 64% → 25% of pages scanned).
  • page-has-heading-one shrank: 3982 → 1731 pages affected (rate: 64% → 25% of pages scanned).
  • region shrank: 4003 → 1732 pages affected (rate: 64% → 25% of pages scanned).
  • aria-allowed-role shrank: 410 → 231 pages affected (rate: 7% → 3% of pages scanned).
  • aria-input-field-name shrank: 410 → 229 pages affected (rate: 7% → 3% of pages scanned).
  • aria-allowed-attr shrank: 982 → 425 pages affected (rate: 16% → 6% of pages scanned).
  • aria-required-children shrank: 982 → 425 pages affected (rate: 16% → 6% of pages scanned).

Alfa

  • New: sia-r78 appeared this week.
  • New: sia-r72 appeared this week.
  • Resolved: sia-r70 no longer fails on any scanned page.
  • sia-r73 spread: 1137 → 2552 pages affected (rate: 36% → 74% of pages scanned).
  • sia-r8 shrank: 219 → 125 pages affected (rate: 7% → 4% of pages scanned).
  • sia-r68 shrank: 726 → 341 pages affected (rate: 23% → 10% of pages scanned).
  • sia-r113 shrank: 219 → 125 pages affected (rate: 7% → 4% of pages scanned).
  • sia-r14 shrank: 1085 → 471 pages affected (rate: 35% → 14% of pages scanned).
  • sia-r61 shrank: 1978 → 878 pages affected (rate: 63% → 26% of pages scanned).
  • sia-r87 shrank: 1991 → 882 pages affected (rate: 64% → 26% of pages scanned).
  • sia-r18 shrank: 508 → 219 pages affected (rate: 16% → 6% 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 (2023)

7216 distinct resources, by type.
TypeCount
PDF documents6797
Spreadsheets296
Archives (zip, etc.)99
Images16
Audio files8