Embracing Change, Ensuring the Future | Columbia College

Build Your New | Columbia College

Information for Families | Columbia College

Mission, Vision and Values | Columbia College

Connect with your Admissions Team | Columbia College

Awards | Columbia College

Accreditation | Columbia College

Transfer to Columbia College | Columbia College

College Administration | Columbia College

Board of Trustees | Columbia College

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

December 2024

November 2024

Columbia College MO

Title / URL	Issues
Embracing Change, Ensuring the Future \| Columbia Collegewww.ccis.edu/about/strategic-plan	7
Build Your New \| Columbia Collegewww.ccis.edu/index	7
Information for Families \| Columbia Collegewww.ccis.edu/families/	7
Mission, Vision and Values \| Columbia Collegewww.ccis.edu/about/mission	7
Connect with your Admissions Team \| Columbia Collegewww.ccis.edu/directory/admissions	7
Awards \| Columbia Collegewww.ccis.edu/about/awards	7
Accreditation \| Columbia Collegewww.ccis.edu/about/accreditation/	7
Transfer to Columbia College \| Columbia Collegewww.ccis.edu/admissions/transfer/	7
College Administration \| Columbia Collegewww.ccis.edu/about/leadership/	7
Board of Trustees \| Columbia Collegewww.ccis.edu/about/leadership/trustees	7

Ensure focus is not fully obscured

Columbia College MO

Where this issue has occurred