Bakersfield College

Current Students

Public Safety Training Pathway

Academics

New Students

Arts, Communication and Humanities Pathway

Industrial Technology and Transportation Pathway

Health Sciences Pathway

Enrollment & Aid

When selecting a user interface component with the keyboard, the focus indicator must 
not be partly obscured by anything in front of it. This is the stricter version of this check for 
Level AAA.

## 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 2.4.13](https://w3c.github.io/wcag/understanding/focus-not-obscured-enhanced.html)

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January 2025

December 2024

Title / URL	Issues
Bakersfield Collegewww.bakersfieldcollege.edu/	66
Bakersfield Collegewww.bakersfieldcollege.edu/index.html	66
Current Studentswww.bakersfieldcollege.edu/current-students.html	64
Public Safety Training Pathwaywww.bakersfieldcollege.edu/academics/pathways/pst/index.html	64
Academicswww.bakersfieldcollege.edu/academics/index.html	59
New Studentswww.bakersfieldcollege.edu/new-students.html	59
Arts, Communication and Humanities Pathwaywww.bakersfieldcollege.edu/academics/pathways/ach/index.html	57
Industrial Technology and Transportation Pathwaywww.bakersfieldcollege.edu/academics/pathways/itt/index.html	57
Health Sciences Pathwaywww.bakersfieldcollege.edu/academics/pathways/hs/index.html	55
Enrollment & Aidwww.bakersfieldcollege.edu/enrollment-aid/index.html	54

Ensure focus is not partly obscured

Bakersfield College

Where this issue has occurred