Irish Fiscal Advisory Council – Ireland's budgetary watchdog

Our work – Irish Fiscal Advisory Council

About the Council – Irish Fiscal Advisory Council

Transparency – Irish Fiscal Advisory Council

First time visit: View without clicking anything

Analytical Notes – Irish Fiscal Advisory Council

Path for the Public Finances 2025 – Irish Fiscal Advisory Council

Fiscal Space Calculator – Irish Fiscal Advisory Council

Contact the Council – Irish Fiscal Advisory Council

Page not found – Irish Fiscal Advisory Council

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

Irish Fiscal Advisory Council

Title / URL	Issues
Irish Fiscal Advisory Council – Ireland's budgetary watchdogwww.fiscalcouncil.ie/	100
Our work – Irish Fiscal Advisory Councilwww.fiscalcouncil.ie/our-work/	100
About the Council – Irish Fiscal Advisory Councilwww.fiscalcouncil.ie/about-the-council/	100
Transparency – Irish Fiscal Advisory Councilwww.fiscalcouncil.ie/about-the-council/transparency-2/	100
First time visit: View without clicking anythingwww.fiscalcouncil.ie/	80
Analytical Notes – Irish Fiscal Advisory Councilwww.fiscalcouncil.ie/analytical-notes/	49
Path for the Public Finances 2025 – Irish Fiscal Advisory Councilwww.fiscalcouncil.ie/path-for-the-public-finances-2025/	24
Fiscal Space Calculator – Irish Fiscal Advisory Councilwww.fiscalcouncil.ie/fiscal-space-calculator/	18
Contact the Council – Irish Fiscal Advisory Councilwww.fiscalcouncil.ie/contact-the-council/	16
Page not found – Irish Fiscal Advisory Councilwww.fiscalcouncil.ie/invented-url-for-404-page	15

Ensure focus is not fully obscured

Irish Fiscal Advisory Council

Where this issue has occurred