Transferring Colleges - San Francisco | CCA

Undergraduate Student Admissions | CCA

Community at California College of the Arts | CCA

Your Right to Know | CCA

Graduate Student Admissions | CCA

About California College of the Arts - San Francisco | CCA

Apply to California College of the Arts | CCA

CCA | California College of the Arts - Bay Area Art & Design School

Press | CCA

Events & Exhibitions - San Francisco Art Shows | CCA

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

January 2025

December 2024

California College of the Arts

Title / URL	Issues
Transferring Colleges - San Francisco \| CCAwww.cca.edu/admissions/transfer/	100
Undergraduate Student Admissions \| CCAwww.cca.edu/admissions/undergraduate/	77
Community at California College of the Arts \| CCAwww.cca.edu/community/	65
Your Right to Know \| CCAwww.cca.edu/about/right-to-know/	64
Graduate Student Admissions \| CCAwww.cca.edu/admissions/graduate/	59
About California College of the Arts - San Francisco \| CCAwww.cca.edu/about/	51
Apply to California College of the Arts \| CCAwww.cca.edu/admissions/apply/	47
CCA \| California College of the Arts - Bay Area Art & Design Schoolwww.cca.edu/	41
Press \| CCAwww.cca.edu/about/press/	37
Events & Exhibitions - San Francisco Art Shows \| CCAwww.cca.edu/exhibitions/	36

Ensure focus is not fully obscured

California College of the Arts

Where this issue has occurred