Top | EBARA CORPORATION

Energy Company | EBARA CORPORATION

Bio Business | EBARA CORPORATION

Eco and GX Businesses | EBARA CORPORATION

Inquiry | EBARA CORPORATION

Building Service & Industrial Company | EBARA CORPORATION

Cookie Policy | EBARA CORPORATION

Support | EBARA CORPORATION

Energy market | EBARA CORPORATION

New Businesses | EBARA CORPORATION

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

Ebara Corporation

Title / URL	Issues
Top \| EBARA CORPORATIONwww.ebara.co.jp/en/	8
Energy Company \| EBARA CORPORATIONwww.ebara.co.jp/en/energy/company/	8
Bio Business \| EBARA CORPORATIONwww.ebara.co.jp/en/startup/bio/index.html	8
Eco and GX Businesses \| EBARA CORPORATIONwww.ebara.co.jp/en/startup/eco/index.html	8
Inquiry \| EBARA CORPORATIONwww.ebara.co.jp/en/contact/index.html	8
Building Service & Industrial Company \| EBARA CORPORATIONwww.ebara.co.jp/en/building-industry/company/	8
Cookie Policy \| EBARA CORPORATIONebara.co.jp/en/info/cookie_policy.html	8
Support \| EBARA CORPORATIONwww.ebara.co.jp/en/support/index.html	8
Energy market \| EBARA CORPORATIONwww.ebara.co.jp/en/energy/	8
New Businesses \| EBARA CORPORATIONwww.ebara.co.jp/en/startup/	8

Ensure focus is not fully obscured

Ebara Corporation

Where this issue has occurred