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Focused Element Obscured by Sticky Element on Shopify

When tabbing through the page, focused elements can become hidden behind sticky headers, footers, or floating elements, making them invisible to keyboard users.

Issue ID: A11Y-FOCUS-OBSCURED-001Severity: moderateEffort: S

Why this matters

When tabbing through the page, focused elements can become hidden behind sticky headers, footers, or floating elements, making them invisible to keyboard users. This affects usability, compliance risk, and how many visitors can successfully consume the page.

Shopify fix path

How to fix this on Shopify

Use theme settings, page settings, or theme code.

  1. 1Find the source of the issue in Shopify admin.
  2. 2Apply the change.
  3. 3Preview and publish.

After you fix it

  • Tab through the page and confirm focused elements are never hidden behind sticky elements

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