Birmingham Civic Housing Association | Quality Homes

Rent | Birmingham Civic Housing Association

Changes To Your Tenancy | Birmingham Civic Housing Association

Homeless Households | Birmingham Civic Housing Association

Fire Safety | Birmingham Civic Housing Association

Our Heritage | Birmingham Civic Housing Association

Birmingham Choice | Birmingham Civic Housing Association

Find A Home | Birmingham Civic Housing Association

Useful Numbers | Birmingham Civic Housing Association

Transfer To Another Home | Birmingham Civic Housing Association

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

April 2025

March 2025

Birmingham Civic Housing Association Limited

Title / URL	Issues
Birmingham Civic Housing Association \| Quality Homesbcivic.co.uk/	30
Rent \| Birmingham Civic Housing Associationbcivic.co.uk/rent/	28
Changes To Your Tenancy \| Birmingham Civic Housing Associationbcivic.co.uk/your-tenancy/changes-to-your-tenancy/	26
Homeless Households \| Birmingham Civic Housing Associationbcivic.co.uk/find-a-home/homeless-households/	22
Fire Safety \| Birmingham Civic Housing Associationbcivic.co.uk/repairs/fire-safety/	21
Our Heritage \| Birmingham Civic Housing Associationbcivic.co.uk/about-us/our-heritage/	20
Birmingham Choice \| Birmingham Civic Housing Associationbcivic.co.uk/find-a-home/birmingham-choice/	19
Find A Home \| Birmingham Civic Housing Associationbcivic.co.uk/find-a-home/	19
Useful Numbers \| Birmingham Civic Housing Associationbcivic.co.uk/find-a-home/useful-numbers/	18
Transfer To Another Home \| Birmingham Civic Housing Associationbcivic.co.uk/find-a-home/transfer-to-another-home/	18

Ensure focus is not fully obscured

Birmingham Civic Housing Association Limited

Where this issue has occurred