Payment Protection Claims | Assurant

What sustainability means to us | Assurant

Media Resources | Assurant

Assurant Helps you Take Care of Business | Assurant

News Releases

Assurant Ventures

Assurant Claims & Support | Help Center

Smarter multifamily housing protection solutions | Assurant

About Assurant | Advancing the Connected World

Diversity, Equity & Inclusion at Assurant

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)

ensure-focus-is-not-obscured-minimum

September 2024

August 2024

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Title / URL	Issues
Payment Protection Claims \| Assurantwww.assurant.com/claims-and-support/payment-protection	57
What sustainability means to us \| Assurantwww.assurant.com/about-us/sustainability	49
Media Resources \| Assurantwww.assurant.com/news-insight/media-resources	48
Assurant Helps you Take Care of Business \| Assurantwww.assurant.com/	48
News Releaseswww.assurant.com/news-insight/news-releases	46
Assurant Ventureswww.assurant.com/partner-with-us/partnerships/ventures	44
Assurant Claims & Support \| Help Centerwww.assurant.com/claims-and-support	43
Smarter multifamily housing protection solutions \| Assurantwww.assurant.com/partner-with-us/multifamily-housing	43
About Assurant \| Advancing the Connected Worldwww.assurant.com/about-us/company-overview	38
Diversity, Equity & Inclusion at Assurantwww.assurant.com/about-us/diversity	38

Ensure focus is not fully obscured

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