Cheshire Fire & Rescue Service - Water safety

Road safety

Cheshire Fire & Rescue Service - Fire protection

Cheshire Fire & Rescue Service - Not Found

Cheshire Fire & Rescue Service - Children and young people

Cheshire Fire & Rescue Service - Your service

First time visit: View without clicking anything

The history of Cheshire Fire and Rescue Service

Transparency

Cheshire Fire & Rescue Service - Your safety

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

May 2025

April 2025

Cheshire Fire and Rescue Service

Title / URL	Issues
Cheshire Fire & Rescue Service - Water safetywww.cheshirefire.gov.uk/your-safety/water-safety/	3
Road safetywww.cheshirefire.gov.uk/your-safety/road-safety/	3
Cheshire Fire & Rescue Service - Fire protectionwww.cheshirefire.gov.uk/fire-protection/	3
Cheshire Fire & Rescue Service - Not Foundwww.cheshirefire.gov.uk/invented-url-for-404-page/	3
Cheshire Fire & Rescue Service - Children and young peoplewww.cheshirefire.gov.uk/children-young-people/	3
Cheshire Fire & Rescue Service - Your servicewww.cheshirefire.gov.uk/your-service/	3
First time visit: View without clicking anythingwww.cheshirefire.gov.uk/	3
The history of Cheshire Fire and Rescue Servicewww.cheshirefire.gov.uk/your-service/history/	3
Transparencywww.cheshirefire.gov.uk/your-service/transparency/	3
Cheshire Fire & Rescue Service - Your safetywww.cheshirefire.gov.uk/your-safety/	3

Ensure focus is not fully obscured

Cheshire Fire and Rescue Service

Where this issue has occurred