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www.medicare.gov: week 2026-W30

This is the 2026-W30 ISO-week report (1953 pages fetched, 1906 unique pages audited by axe/Alfa). Generated 2026-07-24. Compared against 2026-W29 (1913 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 445 — 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 440 — 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 383 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 125 — See remediation guidance: https://alfa.siteimprove.com/rules/sia-r78 pages (CSV)
Heading levels should only increase by one (WCAG criterion undetermined) (rule↗) Moderate 40 — 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 27 — Increase text contrast to meet WCAG AAA (7:1). pages (CSV)
Frames must have an accessible name (WCAG 4.1.2) (rule↗) Serious 14 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 15 — See remediation guidance: https://alfa.siteimprove.com/rules/sia-r87 pages (CSV)

Progress

Open findings by severity over 7 weeks (lower is better)
Serious Moderate Minor W24W27W30170

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 18 issue type(s)
Median axe violations / page
0
Pages with axe violations
69 of 1906
Median Alfa failures / page
48
Pages with Alfa failures
445 of 445
Unique pages audited
1906
Lighthouse performance (median)
40/100 207 sampled details
Lighthouse SEO (median)
92/100
Lighthouse best practices (median)
54/100
Lighthouse agentic (median)
100/100
Words per page (median)
212 main content, nav excluded
Reading ease (median)
39.4 571 prose pages
Reading grade (median)
14.3
Misspellings
25+ distinct details
Broken links
47 details
Median page weight
7.0 MB +39 KB worse
Median requests per page
107
Estimated energy per page (mean)
2.1999 Wh

Note: page counts differ between weeks (1913 → 1953). Prefer the "pages affected" columns over raw instance counts when comparing.

Scan coverage this week (1953 pages · 1906 succeeded of 1913 attempted)
Pages each engine ran on, per the configured weekly sampling rates.
EnginePagesCoverage
axe190698%
resources190698%
standards98650%
plain-language92447%
alfa44523%
security20811%
lighthouse20711%
sustainability20110%
deprecated-html18710%
tech1739%

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

Changes since 2026-W29 2 change(s)

axe-core

No rule-level changes.

Alfa

  • Resolved: sia-r80 no longer fails on any scanned page.
  • sia-r17 shrank: 877 → 383 pages affected (rate: 89% → 86% 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 (206)

1503 distinct resources, by type.
TypeCount
PDF documents1250
Iframes197
Audio files54
Images1
Archives (zip, etc.)1