Our Trustees | Birmingham Civic Housing Association

Birmingham Civic Housing Association | Quality Homes

Keeping Warm | Birmingham Civic Housing Association

Our People | Birmingham Civic Housing Association

Rent | Birmingham Civic Housing Association

Repairs | Birmingham Civic Housing Association

Help Heating Your Home | Birmingham Civic Housing Association

About Us | Birmingham Civic Housing Association

Fire Safety | Birmingham Civic Housing Association

Gas Safety | 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

December 2024

November 2024

Birmingham Civic Housing Association Limited

Title / URL	Issues
Our Trustees \| Birmingham Civic Housing Associationbcivic.co.uk/about-us/our-trustees/	31
Birmingham Civic Housing Association \| Quality Homesbcivic.co.uk/	30
Keeping Warm \| Birmingham Civic Housing Associationbcivic.co.uk/repairs/keeping-warm/	29
Our People \| Birmingham Civic Housing Associationbcivic.co.uk/about-us/our-people/	29
Rent \| Birmingham Civic Housing Associationbcivic.co.uk/rent/	28
Repairs \| Birmingham Civic Housing Associationbcivic.co.uk/repairs/	24
Help Heating Your Home \| Birmingham Civic Housing Associationbcivic.co.uk/rent/help-heating-your-home/	24
About Us \| Birmingham Civic Housing Associationbcivic.co.uk/about-us/	22
Fire Safety \| Birmingham Civic Housing Associationbcivic.co.uk/repairs/fire-safety/	21
Gas Safety \| Birmingham Civic Housing Associationbcivic.co.uk/repairs/gas-safety/	21

Ensure focus is not fully obscured

Birmingham Civic Housing Association Limited

Where this issue has occurred