Adobe Illustrator - Industry-leading vector graphics software

Professional video editing software | Adobe Premiere Pro

Adobe AI

Official Adobe Photoshop - Leading AI photo & design software

Adobe Creative Cloud for education | Educational institutions

Adobe Firefly - Free Generative AI for creatives

Adobe Creative Cloud | Details and products | Adobe

3D design software - Adobe Substance 3D

PDFs for creatives | Adobe Acrobat Creative Cloud

Adobe: Creative, marketing and document management solutions

When selecting a user interface component with the keyboard, the focus indicator must 
not be completely obscured by anything in front of it.

## Why this matters

When using a keyboard, it is important that the user can see where they are on the page.
If the focus indicator is obscured, the user may not know where they are, and may not
be able to interact with the page.

## Examples

Most common examples include:

* Banners at the top or bottom of the page, such as cookie banners
* Fixed navigation bars
* Fixed footers
* Popup modals, such as cookie consent modals

## How to fix

With elements that cover part of the screen, such as cookie banners, ensure
that the user can scroll to see any content behind the banner, without having to close
the banner.

With popup modals, it should usually be impossible to focus anything behind the modal.
Most common modal frameworks will automatically trap focus within the modal, so that
this is impossible. Example: [Bootstrap Modal](https://getbootstrap.com/docs/5.2/components/modal/#live-demo).

## Further reading

This is part of the draft WCAG 2.2 specification and is subject to change.

* [WCAG 2.4.12](https://www.w3.org/WAI/WCAG22/Understanding/focus-not-obscured.html)

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September 2024

August 2024

Adobe Systems Inc

Title / URL	Issues
Adobe Illustrator - Industry-leading vector graphics softwarewww.adobe.com/products/illustrator.html	58
Professional video editing software \| Adobe Premiere Prowww.adobe.com/products/premiere.html	58
Adobe AIwww.adobe.com/ai/overview.html	33
Official Adobe Photoshop - Leading AI photo & design softwarewww.adobe.com/products/photoshop.html	7
Adobe Creative Cloud for education \| Educational institutionswww.adobe.com/education.html	7
Adobe Firefly - Free Generative AI for creativeswww.adobe.com/products/firefly.html	7
Adobe Creative Cloud \| Details and products \| Adobewww.adobe.com/creativecloud.html	2
3D design software - Adobe Substance 3Dwww.adobe.com/products/substance3d.html	2
PDFs for creatives \| Adobe Acrobat Creative Cloudwww.adobe.com/products/acrobat-pro-cc.html	2
Adobe: Creative, marketing and document management solutionswww.adobe.com/	2

Ensure focus is not fully obscured

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Where this issue has occurred