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Trade and Vocational School in Anchorage

Veterinary School | Career Training Programs

Campus Locations | Charter College

Trade and Vocational School in Montana

Healthcare Training Programs | Degrees and Certificate

Trade and Vocational School in New Mexico

Cybersecurity, A.A.S. | Charter College

Medical Assistant Training in Salt Lake City

Trade and Vocational Training Programs

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

June 2025

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Charter College

Title / URL	Issues
First time visit: View without clicking anythingchartercollege.edu/	7
Trade and Vocational School in Anchoragechartercollege.edu/locations/anchorage-ak	5
Veterinary School \| Career Training Programschartercollege.edu/veterinary	5
Campus Locations \| Charter Collegechartercollege.edu/locations/location-map	5
Trade and Vocational School in Montanachartercollege.edu/locations/montana	5
Healthcare Training Programs \| Degrees and Certificatechartercollege.edu/programs/health-care	5
Trade and Vocational School in New Mexicochartercollege.edu/locations/new-mexico	5
Cybersecurity, A.A.S. \| Charter Collegechartercollege.edu/programs/cybersecurity-aas	5
Medical Assistant Training in Salt Lake Citychartercollege.edu/salt-lake-city-ut	5
Trade and Vocational Training Programschartercollege.edu/programs/trades-vocation	5

Ensure focus is not fully obscured

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