Queen’s award for long-serving clinician

EEAST’s thanks to blue light colleagues

Helping others in Adam’s memory

Volunteers’ Week

EEAST appoints new chief executive

Family’s gratitude to “amazing” life savers

Care Quality Commission

Welcome to EEAST

Thank you event for patient’s family

Connor's fundraiser

When selecting a user interface component with the keyboard, the focus indicator must 
not be partly obscured by anything in front of it. This is the stricter version of this check for 
Level AAA.

## 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 2.4.13](https://w3c.github.io/wcag/understanding/focus-not-obscured-enhanced.html)

ensure-focus-is-not-obscured-enhanced

June 2025

May 2025

East of England Ambulance Service NHS Trust

Title / URL	Issues
Queen’s award for long-serving clinicianwww.eastamb.nhs.uk/news/queens-award-for-long-serving-clinician/3710	2
EEAST’s thanks to blue light colleagueswww.eastamb.nhs.uk/news/eeasts-thanks-to-blue-light-colleagues/3668	2
Helping others in Adam’s memorywww.eastamb.nhs.uk/news/helping-others-in-adams-memory/3872	2
Volunteers’ Weekwww.eastamb.nhs.uk/news/volunteers-week/3786	2
EEAST appoints new chief executivewww.eastamb.nhs.uk/news/eeast-appoints-new-chief-executive/3783	2
Family’s gratitude to “amazing” life saverswww.eastamb.nhs.uk/news/familys-gratitude-to-amazing-life-savers/3761	2
Care Quality Commissionwww.eastamb.nhs.uk/about-us/care-quality-commission.htm	2
Welcome to EEASTwww.eastamb.nhs.uk/	2
Thank you event for patient’s familywww.eastamb.nhs.uk/news/thank-you-event-for-patients-family/3798	2
Connor's fundraiserwww.eastamb.nhs.uk/news/connors-fundraiser/3810	2

Ensure focus is not partly obscured

East of England Ambulance Service NHS Trust

Where this issue has occurred