A to Z - Durham County Council

Help with your heating and energy bills - Durham County Council

Home - Durham County Council

Clothes recycling - Durham County Council

Housing - Durham County Council

Roads and pavements - Durham County Council

Welfare assistance scheme - Durham County Council

Get money off your Council Tax bill - Durham County Council

Food safety - Durham County Council

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 2024

May 2024

Durham County Council

Title / URL	Issues
A to Z - Durham County Councilwww.durham.gov.uk/article/4004/A-to-Z?tag=B	54
Help with your heating and energy bills - Durham County Councilwww.durham.gov.uk/saveonyourenergybills	51
A to Z - Durham County Councilwww.durham.gov.uk/article/4004/A-to-Z?tag=I	50
Home - Durham County Councilwww.durham.gov.uk/	49
Clothes recycling - Durham County Councilwww.durham.gov.uk/clothesrecycling	49
Housing - Durham County Councilwww.durham.gov.uk/housing	45
Roads and pavements - Durham County Councilwww.durham.gov.uk/roadandpath	43
Welfare assistance scheme - Durham County Councilwww.durham.gov.uk/welfareassistance	40
Get money off your Council Tax bill - Durham County Councilwww.durham.gov.uk/counciltaxdiscounts	39
Food safety - Durham County Councilwww.durham.gov.uk/FoodSafety	39

Ensure focus is not fully obscured

Durham County Council

Where this issue has occurred