santamonica.gov - Fire Prevention

santamonica.gov - Santa Monica Housing Office - Affordable Housing

santamonica.gov - CREST

santamonica.gov - Cradle to Career

santamonica.gov - Police

santamonica.gov - Santa Monica Housing Office

santamonica.gov

santamonica.gov - Clean Power Alliance

santamonica.gov - Library Locations and Hours

santamonica.gov - Fire

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

September 2025

August 2025

City of Santa Monica

Title / URL	Issues
santamonica.gov - Fire Preventionwww.santamonica.gov/topic-explainers/fire-prevention	100
santamonica.gov - Santa Monica Housing Office - Affordable Housingwww.santamonica.gov/housing-need-housing	100
santamonica.gov - CRESTwww.santamonica.gov/programs/crest	100
santamonica.gov - Cradle to Careerwww.santamonica.gov/programs/cradle-to-career	100
santamonica.gov - Policewww.santamonica.gov/departments/police	100
santamonica.gov - Santa Monica Housing Officewww.santamonica.gov/housing	100
santamonica.govwww.santamonica.gov/places/farmers-markets	100
santamonica.gov - Clean Power Alliancewww.santamonica.gov/clean-power-alliance	100
santamonica.gov - Library Locations and Hourswww.santamonica.gov/library-locations-and-hours	100
santamonica.gov - Firewww.santamonica.gov/departments/fire	100

Ensure focus is not fully obscured

City of Santa Monica

Where this issue has occurred