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www.medicare.gov: week 2026-W25

This is the 2026-W25 ISO-week report (1171 pages fetched, 1158 unique pages audited by axe/Alfa). Generated 2026-07-12. Compared against 2026-W24 (1171 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: 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).

New this week
0
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↗) Moderate 338 — 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↗) Moderate 332 — 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 290 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 101 — See remediation guidance: https://alfa.siteimprove.com/rules/sia-r78 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 enhanced contrast (WCAG 1.4.6) (rule↗) Moderate 23 — Increase text contrast to meet WCAG AAA (7:1). pages (CSV)
Frames must have an accessible name (WCAG 4.1.2) (rule↗) Serious 7 Without vision, Limited vision Give every <iframe> a descriptive title attribute. pages (CSV)
First focusable element is link to main content (WCAG criterion undetermined) (rule↗) Moderate 11 — See remediation guidance: https://alfa.siteimprove.com/rules/sia-r87 pages (CSV)

Progress

Open findings by severity over 2 weeks (lower is better)
Serious Moderate Minor W24W25170

This week at a glance 19 issue type(s)
Median axe violations / page
0
Pages with axe violations
44 of 1158
Median Alfa failures / page
49
Pages with Alfa failures
338 of 338
Unique pages audited
1158
Lighthouse performance (median)
38/100 196 sampled details
Lighthouse SEO (median)
92/100
Lighthouse best practices (median)
54/100
Words per page (median)
216 main content, nav excluded
Reading ease (median)
38.6 329 prose pages
Reading grade (median)
14.6
Misspellings
25+ distinct details
Broken links
23 details
Median page weight
6.6 MB -10 KB better
Median requests per page
110
Estimated energy per page (mean)
2.1226 Wh
Scan coverage this week (1171 pages)
Pages each engine ran on, per the configured weekly sampling rates.
EnginePagesCoverage
axe115899%
resources115899%
sustainability71561%
deprecated-html70160%
plain-language54847%
alfa33829%
standards28224%
lighthouse19717%
security504%

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

Changes since 2026-W24 3 change(s)

axe-core

No rule-level changes.

Alfa

  • sia-r73 shrank: 657 → 332 pages affected (rate: 96% → 98% of pages scanned).
  • sia-r17 shrank: 573 → 290 pages affected (rate: 84% → 86% of pages scanned).
  • sia-r78 shrank: 229 → 101 pages affected (rate: 33% → 30% 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 (438)

1038 distinct resources, by type.
TypeCount
PDF documents846
Iframes136
Audio files54
Images1
Archives (zip, etc.)1