Directory - Local Offer Birmingham

News - Local Offer Birmingham

My Account - Local Offer Birmingham

Contact - Local Offer Birmingham

Things to Do - Local Offer Birmingham

Feedback Form - Local Offer Birmingham

Early Years - Local Offer Birmingham

Health and Wellbeing - Local Offer Birmingham

Co-production and Engagement - Local Offer Birmingham

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

August 2025

July 2025

Birmingham Local Offer

	Title / URL	Issues
	Directory - Local Offer Birminghamwww.localofferbirmingham.co.uk/directory-2/	100
	News - Local Offer Birminghamwww.localofferbirmingham.co.uk/news/	64
	News - Local Offer Birminghamwww.localofferbirmingham.co.uk/category/news/	35
	My Account - Local Offer Birminghamwww.localofferbirmingham.co.uk/my-account/	20
	Contact - Local Offer Birminghamwww.localofferbirmingham.co.uk/contact/	20
	Things to Do - Local Offer Birminghamwww.localofferbirmingham.co.uk/leisure/	18
	Feedback Form - Local Offer Birminghamwww.localofferbirmingham.co.uk/feedback-form/	17
	Early Years - Local Offer Birminghamwww.localofferbirmingham.co.uk/early-years/	17
	Health and Wellbeing - Local Offer Birminghamwww.localofferbirmingham.co.uk/health-and-wellbeing-3/	17
	Co-production and Engagement - Local Offer Birminghamwww.localofferbirmingham.co.uk/co-production/	15

Ensure focus is not fully obscured

Birmingham Local Offer

Where this issue has occurred