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www.medicare.gov: week 2026-W24

This is the 2026-W24 ISO-week report (1171 pages fetched, 1158 unique pages audited by axe/Alfa). Generated 2026-07-06. First recorded week; no comparison yet. 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: 4 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).

Change this week

New this week
19
Fixed this week
0
Regressed this week
0

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
Target size is at least 44×44 CSS pixels (Enhanced) (WCAG 2.5.5) (rule↗) Serious 684 — See remediation guidance: https://alfa.siteimprove.com/rules/sia-r111 pages (CSV)
Text has minimum contrast ratio of 4.5:1 (WCAG 1.4.8) (rule↗) Serious 657 — See remediation guidance: https://alfa.siteimprove.com/rules/sia-r73 pages (CSV)
aria-hidden element does not contain focusable elements (WCAG 4.1.2) (rule↗) Moderate 573 Without vision, Limited vision See remediation guidance: https://alfa.siteimprove.com/rules/sia-r17 pages (CSV)
Table header has scope (WCAG criterion undetermined) (rule↗) Moderate 229 — See remediation guidance: https://alfa.siteimprove.com/rules/sia-r78 pages (CSV)
Text has enhanced contrast (WCAG 1.4.6) (rule↗) Moderate 55 — Increase text contrast to meet WCAG AAA (7:1). pages (CSV)
First focusable element is link to main content (WCAG criterion undetermined) (rule↗) Moderate 31 — See remediation guidance: https://alfa.siteimprove.com/rules/sia-r87 pages (CSV)
Heading levels should only increase by one (WCAG criterion undetermined) (rule↗) Moderate 27 — Use heading levels in order (h1 → h2 → h3) without skipping; structure, not size. pages (CSV)
Text has sufficient color contrast (Enhanced) (WCAG 1.4.3) (rule↗) Moderate 17 Limited vision, Without color perception Increase text contrast to meet WCAG AA (4.5:1, or 3:1 for large text). pages (CSV)

Progress

This week at a glance 19 issue type(s)

Median axe violations / page
0
Pages with axe violations
42 of 1158
Median Alfa failures / page
50
Pages with Alfa failures
684 of 684
Unique pages audited
1158
Lighthouse performance (median)
37/100 77 sampled details
Lighthouse SEO (median)
92/100
Lighthouse best practices (median)
54/100
Words per page (median)
156 main content, nav excluded
Reading ease (median)
41 176 prose pages
Reading grade (median)
14
Misspellings
25+ distinct details
Broken links
5 details
Median page weight
6.7 MB
Median requests per page
108
Estimated energy per page (mean)
1.0979 Wh
Scan coverage this week (1171 pages)
Pages each engine ran on, per the configured weekly sampling rates.
EnginePagesCoverage
axe115899%
sustainability115899%
alfa68458%
deprecated-html67257%
resources60452%
plain-language31527%
lighthouse777%

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

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 (661)

661 distinct resources, by type.
TypeCount
PDF documents539
Iframes66
Audio files54
Archives (zip, etc.)1
Images1