Parking review - Sutton Council

Sitemap - Sutton Council

Council - Sutton Council

Pay for it - Sutton Council

Children and families - Sutton Council

Parking checker - Sutton Council

Find us on social media - Sutton Council

Home - Sutton Council

When selecting a user interface component with the keyboard, the focus indicator must 
not be partly obscured by anything in front of it. This is the stricter version of this check for 
Level AAA.

## 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 2.4.13](https://w3c.github.io/wcag/understanding/focus-not-obscured-enhanced.html)

ensure-focus-is-not-obscured-enhanced

January 2025

December 2024

London Borough of Sutton Council

Title / URL	Issues
Parking review - Sutton Councilwww.sutton.gov.uk/w/parking-review	100
Sitemap - Sutton Councilwww.sutton.gov.uk/sitemap	100
Council - Sutton Councilwww.sutton.gov.uk/council	67
Pay for it - Sutton Councilwww.sutton.gov.uk/pay-for-it	66
Children and families - Sutton Councilwww.sutton.gov.uk/children-and-families	62
Parking checker - Sutton Councilwww.sutton.gov.uk/parking-checker	56
Find us on social media - Sutton Councilwww.sutton.gov.uk/w/find-us-on-social-media	53
Home - Sutton Councilwww.sutton.gov.uk/home	50
Home - Sutton Councilwww.sutton.gov.uk/	50
Home - Sutton Councilwww.sutton.gov.uk/web/guest	50

Ensure focus is not partly obscured

London Borough of Sutton Council

Where this issue has occurred