Your Feedback | Freebridge Community Housing

Shareholders | Freebridge Community Housing

Who We Are | Freebridge Community Housing

Error | Freebridge Community Housing

I'm A Freebridge Customer | Freebridge Community Housing

About My Home | Freebridge Community Housing

Our Policies | Freebridge Community Housing

Our Board | Freebridge Community Housing

Insurance | Freebridge Community Housing

| Freebridge Community Housing

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

May 2025

April 2025

Freebridge Community Housing Limited

Title / URL	Issues
Your Feedback \| Freebridge Community Housingwww.freebridge.org.uk/freebridge-customer/your-feedback	2
Shareholders \| Freebridge Community Housingwww.freebridge.org.uk/who-we-are/shareholders	2
Who We Are \| Freebridge Community Housingwww.freebridge.org.uk/who-we-are	2
Error \| Freebridge Community Housingwww.freebridge.org.uk/invented-url-for-404-page	2
I'm A Freebridge Customer \| Freebridge Community Housingwww.freebridge.org.uk/freebridge-customer	2
About My Home \| Freebridge Community Housingwww.freebridge.org.uk/freebridge-customer/about-my-home	2
Our Policies \| Freebridge Community Housingwww.freebridge.org.uk/who-we-are/our-policies	2
Our Board \| Freebridge Community Housingwww.freebridge.org.uk/who-we-are/our-board	2
Insurance \| Freebridge Community Housingwww.freebridge.org.uk/freebridge-customer/insurance	2
\| Freebridge Community Housingwww.freebridge.org.uk/who-we-are/independent-east	2

Ensure focus is not fully obscured

Freebridge Community Housing Limited

Where this issue has occurred