About the Mayor - sutton.gov.uk

Pay or dispute an invoice - sutton.gov.uk

The Mayor's Charities 2024-2025 - sutton.gov.uk

Parking - sutton.gov.uk

Parking review - sutton.gov.uk

Ambitious for Sutton 2022-2027 - sutton.gov.uk

Support for carers - sutton.gov.uk

School admissions - sutton.gov.uk

Home - sutton.gov.uk

Ways to contact us - sutton.gov.uk

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

June 2025

May 2025

London Borough of Sutton Council

	Title / URL	Issues
	About the Mayor - sutton.gov.ukwww.sutton.gov.uk/w/about-the-mayor	20
	Pay or dispute an invoice - sutton.gov.ukwww.sutton.gov.uk/pay-or-dispute-an-invoice	20
	The Mayor's Charities 2024-2025 - sutton.gov.ukwww.sutton.gov.uk/w/the-mayor-s-charities	20
	Parking - sutton.gov.ukwww.sutton.gov.uk/parking	20
	Parking review - sutton.gov.ukwww.sutton.gov.uk/w/parking-review	20
	Ambitious for Sutton 2022-2027 - sutton.gov.ukwww.sutton.gov.uk/ambitiousforsutton	20
	Support for carers - sutton.gov.ukwww.sutton.gov.uk/caring-for-someone	20
	School admissions - sutton.gov.ukwww.sutton.gov.uk/school-admissions	20
	Home - sutton.gov.ukwww.sutton.gov.uk/web/guest	20
	Ways to contact us - sutton.gov.ukwww.sutton.gov.uk/ways-to-contact-us	20

Ensure focus is not fully obscured

London Borough of Sutton Council

Where this issue has occurred