MOLYKOTE® Industrial & Specialty Lubricants | Official Site

DuPont Brands | DuPont

DuPont™ Styrofoam™ Brand XPS Insulation

Newsroom | DuPont

DuPont Offices and Locations | DuPont

Solving Water Challenges

Nomex

DuPont™ Tyvek®, Forward Together™

Home | DuPont

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

August 2025

July 2025

DuPont de Nemours Inc

Title / URL	Issues
MOLYKOTE® Industrial & Specialty Lubricants \| Official Sitewww.dupont.com/molykote.html	100
DuPont Brands \| DuPontwww.dupont.com/brands.html	99
DuPont™ Styrofoam™ Brand XPS Insulationwww.dupont.com/building/styrofoam.html	70
Newsroom \| DuPontwww.dupont.com/news.html	45
DuPont Offices and Locations \| DuPontwww.dupont.com/locations.html	40
Solving Water Challengeswww.dupont.com/water.html	28
Solving Water Challengeswww.dupont.com/water	28
Nomexwww.dupont.com/brands/nomex.html	28
DuPont™ Tyvek®, Forward Together™www.dupont.com/brands/tyvek.html	27
Home \| DuPontwww.dupont.com/	26

Ensure focus is not fully obscured

DuPont de Nemours Inc

Where this issue has occurred