Thought Leadership Webinars | Guardian

Thought Leadership Reports | Guardian

Annuities and retirement products for individuals and families | Guardian

Absence Management | Guardian

Annuities for Retirement | Guardian

Budget-friendly Life Insurance for Individuals, Families, and Businesses | Guardian

Benefits Enrollment Solutions | Guardian

Insurance and benefits with a purpose | Guardian

Guardian Edge Employee Benefits Research and Insights | Guardian

Brokers: Grow Your Group Benefits Business | Guardian

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

January 2025

December 2024

Guardian Life Ins. Co. of America

Title / URL	Issues
Thought Leadership Webinars \| Guardianwww.guardianlife.com/business/webinars	100
Thought Leadership Reports \| Guardianwww.guardianlife.com/business/reports	78
Annuities and retirement products for individuals and families \| Guardianwww.guardianlife.com/retirement	53
Absence Management \| Guardianwww.guardianlife.com/absence-management	50
Annuities for Retirement \| Guardianwww.guardianlife.com/annuities	49
Budget-friendly Life Insurance for Individuals, Families, and Businesses \| Guardianwww.guardianlife.com/life-insurance	45
Benefits Enrollment Solutions \| Guardianwww.guardianlife.com/group/enrollment	41
Insurance and benefits with a purpose \| Guardianwww.guardianlife.com/	41
Guardian Edge Employee Benefits Research and Insights \| Guardianwww.guardianlife.com/guardian-edge	40
Brokers: Grow Your Group Benefits Business \| Guardianwww.guardianlife.com/brokers	40

Ensure focus is not fully obscured

Guardian Life Ins. Co. of America

Where this issue has occurred