Lake County Animal Shelter

Lake County Fire Rescue

Contact Lake County, FL

Public Works Department (Lake County, FL)

Parks & Trails

Lake County Engineering Division

invented-url-for-404-page

Burn Bans in Lake County, FL

News from Lake County, FL

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)

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June 2025

May 2025

Lake County, Florida

	Title / URL	Issues
	Lake County Animal Shelterwww.lakecountyfl.gov/animal-shelter	18
	Lake County Fire Rescuewww.lakecountyfl.gov/fire	17
	Contact Lake County, FLwww.lakecountyfl.gov/contact	15
	Public Works Department (Lake County, FL)www.lakecountyfl.gov/public-works	14
	Parks & Trailswww.lakecountyfl.gov/parks-and-trails	14
	Lake County Engineering Divisionwww.lakecountyfl.gov/engineering	13
	#www.lakecountyfl.gov/%23	11
	invented-url-for-404-pagewww.lakecountyfl.gov/invented-url-for-404-page	11
	Burn Bans in Lake County, FLlakecountyfl.gov/fire/burn-bans	11
	News from Lake County, FLwww.lakecountyfl.gov/news	9

Ensure focus is not fully obscured

Lake County, Florida

Where this issue has occurred