Specialist Palliative Care | East London NHS Foundation Trust

Primary Care At Home | East London NHS Foundation Trust

Heart Failure Service | East London NHS Foundation Trust

TB Nursing | East London NHS Foundation Trust

Podiatry | East London NHS Foundation Trust

Tissue Viability | East London NHS Foundation Trust

MS Nurse Specialist | East London NHS Foundation Trust

Speech & Language Therapy | East London NHS Foundation Trust

Leg Ulcer Management | East London NHS Foundation Trust

Continence | East London NHS Foundation Trust

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

East London NHS Foundation Trust

Title / URL	Issues
Specialist Palliative Care \| East London NHS Foundation Trustwww.elft.nhs.uk/bchs/specialist-palliative-care	2
Primary Care At Home \| East London NHS Foundation Trustwww.elft.nhs.uk/bchs/primary-care-home	2
Heart Failure Service \| East London NHS Foundation Trustwww.elft.nhs.uk/bchs/heart-failure-service	2
TB Nursing \| East London NHS Foundation Trustwww.elft.nhs.uk/bchs/tb-nursing	2
Podiatry \| East London NHS Foundation Trustwww.elft.nhs.uk/bchs/podiatry	2
Tissue Viability \| East London NHS Foundation Trustwww.elft.nhs.uk/bchs/tissue-viability	2
MS Nurse Specialist \| East London NHS Foundation Trustwww.elft.nhs.uk/bchs/ms-nurse-specialist	2
Speech & Language Therapy \| East London NHS Foundation Trustwww.elft.nhs.uk/bchs/speech-language-therapy	2
Leg Ulcer Management \| East London NHS Foundation Trustwww.elft.nhs.uk/bchs/leg-ulcer-management	2
Continence \| East London NHS Foundation Trustwww.elft.nhs.uk/bchs/continence-0	2

Ensure focus is not fully obscured

East London NHS Foundation Trust

Where this issue has occurred