diff --git a/resources/js/carousel.js b/resources/js/carousel.js
index c1260e8e..0d199027 100644
--- a/resources/js/carousel.js
+++ b/resources/js/carousel.js
@@ -808,6 +808,7 @@ document.addEventListener('alpine:init', () => {
             strategy: null,
             snaps: [],
             maxScroll: 0,
+            focalInset: 0,
             rtl: false,
             vertical: false,
             measured: false,
@@ -1027,6 +1028,11 @@ document.addEventListener('alpine:init', () => {
                 // moved or faded, so every item stays at strategy.itemSize.
                 const still = state.reducedMotion.matches
 
+                // Content padding shrinks every keyline near the ends (Strategy.kt's
+                // createShiftedKeylineListForContentPadding), so an item at the focal size can still
+                // carry a small inset there: that inset, not zero, is "fully open" for isMasked().
+                state.focalInset = still ? 0 : clamp((size - (firstFocal(keylines)?.size ?? size)) / 2, 0, size / 2)
+
                 state.items.forEach((item, index) => {
                     const center = index * (size + strategy.itemSpacing) + size / 2 - scroll
                     const before = keylineBefore(keylines, center)
@@ -1220,7 +1226,7 @@ document.addEventListener('alpine:init', () => {
                     return item.left < row.left - 1 || item.right > row.right + 1
                 }
 
-                return parseFloat(state.items[index].surface.style.getPropertyValue('--material-carousel-inset')) > 0.5
+                return parseFloat(state.items[index].surface.style.getPropertyValue('--material-carousel-inset')) > state.focalInset + 0.5
             },
 
             destroy() {
diff --git a/tests/Browser/CarouselTest.php b/tests/Browser/CarouselTest.php
index 9b45d8f1..792f4761 100644
--- a/tests/Browser/CarouselTest.php
+++ b/tests/Browser/CarouselTest.php
@@ -145,9 +145,18 @@ it('snaps a scroll that stops between items onto an item', function () {
         JS));
 });
 
-it('brings a partly hidden item into focus when it is pressed', function () {
+it('brings a partly hidden item into focus when it is pressed, and leaves an open one where it is', function () {
     $page = carouselShowcase()
-        ->assertScript(onCarousel(0, 'return ! open(4)'));
+        ->assertScript(onCarousel(0, 'return open(1) && ! open(4)'));
+
+    // Item 1 rests at the large size, short only of the content padding's share: focusing or
+    // pressing it moves nothing.
+    $page->script(onCarousel(0, 'items[1].focus(); items[1].querySelector(\'[data-material-carousel-content]\').click()'));
+
+    $page->assertScript(onCarousel(0, <<<'JS'
+        await pause(400)
+        return scroller.scrollLeft === 0 && open(1)
+        JS));
 
     $page->script(onCarousel(0, 'items[4].querySelector(\'[data-material-carousel-content]\').click()'));