General
accessibility-overlay-detected
Who this affects
An overlay widget is installed. Overlays are marketed as a fix, but they cannot repair the underlying HTML, and they do not remove legal exposure.
How to fix it
Treat the findings in this report as the real state of the site and fix them in the source. Keep or remove the overlay on its own merits, but do not count it as remediation.
How much work is it?
Usually a template or design change. That is a rough guide for planning, not an estimate for your codebase. A single content edit repeated across a template is a template change.
Where this check comes from
This is our own check, not an axe rule. We added it because the failure it catches is common and nothing else was catching it.
Find out whether your site does this
A scan checks this rule on every page it visits, and shows you the code and a screenshot of each place it fires.