Sexual health services in Barking, Havering and Redbridge | BHR Hospitals

Volunteering roles | BHR Hospitals

Patient stories | BHR Hospitals

Bedrock Radio | BHR Hospitals

Patient experience | BHR Hospitals

MVP | BHR Hospitals

Work experience | BHR Hospitals

Patient-led assessment of the care environment | BHR Hospitals

Become a patient partner | BHR Hospitals

Employee online | BHR Hospitals

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

May 2025

April 2025

Barking, Havering, and Redbridge University Hospitals

Title / URL	Issues
Sexual health services in Barking, Havering and Redbridge \| BHR Hospitalswww.bhrhospitals.nhs.uk/sexual-health	10
Volunteering roles \| BHR Hospitalswww.bhrhospitals.nhs.uk/volunteering-roles	4
Patient stories \| BHR Hospitalswww.bhrhospitals.nhs.uk/patient-stories	3
Bedrock Radio \| BHR Hospitalswww.bhrhospitals.nhs.uk/bedrock-radio	3
Patient experience \| BHR Hospitalswww.bhrhospitals.nhs.uk/patient-experience	3
MVP \| BHR Hospitalswww.bhrhospitals.nhs.uk/mvp	3
Work experience \| BHR Hospitalswww.bhrhospitals.nhs.uk/work-experience-	3
Patient-led assessment of the care environment \| BHR Hospitalswww.bhrhospitals.nhs.uk/place	3
Become a patient partner \| BHR Hospitalswww.bhrhospitals.nhs.uk/patient-partner	3
Employee online \| BHR Hospitalswww.bhrhospitals.nhs.uk/eol	3

Ensure focus is not fully obscured

Barking, Havering, and Redbridge University Hospitals

Where this issue has occurred