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Focused Element Obscured by Sticky Element on Squarespace
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.
Squarespace fix path
How to fix this on Squarespace
Check page settings, navigation, and code injection.
- 1Identify whether this is page-level or site-level.
- 2Apply the fix.
- 3Republish and confirm.
After you fix it
- ✓Tab through the page and confirm focused elements are never hidden behind sticky elements
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Fix focused element obscured by sticky element on a different CMS
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