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www.medicaid.gov: week 2026-W40

This is the 2026-W40 ISO-week report (2696 pages fetched, 2533 unique pages audited by axe/Alfa). Generated 2026-09-30. Compared against 2026-W39 (6888 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: 7 required finding type(s) (handling: review). Aspirational queue: 0 finding type(s). Advisory queue: 0 finding type(s). Unmapped review queue: 6 finding type(s).

New this week
0
Fixed this week
2
Regressed this week
1

Over the whole history of this site, 56276 unique pages have been scanned at least once; 48052 have known accessibility issues. 1546 of them were re-checked this ISO week. Download full data (JSON).

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 1273 — 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 1273 — See remediation guidance: https://alfa.siteimprove.com/rules/sia-r111 pages (CSV)
Scrolling content can be accessed by keyboard (WCAG criterion undetermined) (rule↗) Moderate 1273 — 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 1049 — See remediation guidance: https://alfa.siteimprove.com/rules/sia-r73 pages (CSV)
All page content should be contained by landmarks (WCAG criterion undetermined) (rule↗) Moderate 442 — 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 441 — Each page should have exactly one <main> landmark. pages (CSV)
Page should contain a level-one heading (WCAG criterion undetermined) (rule↗) Moderate 441 — See remediation guidance: https://dequeuniversity.com/rules/axe/4.12/page-has-heading-one?application=axeAPI pages (CSV)
First focusable element is link to main content (WCAG criterion undetermined) (rule↗) Moderate 224 — See remediation guidance: https://alfa.siteimprove.com/rules/sia-r87 pages (CSV)

Progress

Open findings by severity over 17 weeks (lower is better)
Critical Serious Moderate Minor W24W32W40300

Fixed this week

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 24 issue type(s)
Median axe violations / page
0
Pages with axe violations
546 of 2533 CSV
Median Alfa failures / page
81
Pages with Alfa failures
1273 of 1273 CSV
Unique pages audited
2533
Lighthouse performance (median)
67/100 270 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)
34.9 433 prose pages details
Reading grade (median)
17
Misspellings
25+ distinct details
Broken links
1 details
Median page weight
1.7 MB +2 KB worse
Median requests per page
156
Estimated energy per page (mean)
0.5004 Wh

Note: page counts differ between weeks (6888 → 2696). Prefer the "pages affected" columns over raw instance counts when comparing.

Scan coverage this week (2696 pages · 2533 succeeded of 2684 attempted)
Pages each engine ran on, per the configured weekly sampling rates.
EnginePagesCoverage
axe253394%
resources253394%
plain-language131949%
standards127447%
alfa127347%
lighthouse27110%
sustainability26710%
security26610%
tech26510%
deprecated-html26410%

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

Changes since 2026-W39 14 change(s)

axe-core

  • New: label-title-only appeared this week.
  • Resolved: aria-prohibited-attr no longer fails on any scanned page.
  • Resolved: landmark-contentinfo-is-top-level no longer fails on any scanned page.
  • Resolved: landmark-no-duplicate-contentinfo no longer fails on any scanned page.
  • Resolved: link-name 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.
  • landmark-one-main shrank: 1041 → 441 pages affected (rate: 15% → 17% of pages scanned).
  • page-has-heading-one shrank: 1041 → 441 pages affected (rate: 15% → 17% of pages scanned).
  • region shrank: 1046 → 442 pages affected (rate: 15% → 17% of pages scanned).

Alfa

  • Resolved: sia-r78 no longer fails on any scanned page.
  • Resolved: sia-r85 no longer fails on any scanned page.
  • Resolved: sia-r72 no longer fails on any scanned page.
  • Resolved: sia-r69 no longer fails on any scanned page.

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 (312)

3225 distinct resources, by type.
TypeCount
PDF documents3172
Spreadsheets37
Archives (zip, etc.)15
Presentations1