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Focused Element Obscured by Sticky Element on WordPress

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.

WordPress fix path

How to fix this on WordPress

Use the page editor, theme, or SEO tooling depending on where this issue lives.

  1. 1Inspect the page and theme output.
  2. 2Apply the fix in the most direct place.
  3. 3Publish and validate with a re-audit.

After you fix it

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

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