About the Mayor - Sutton Council

Sutton Scene - Sutton Council

The Mayor's Charities 2024-2025 - Sutton Council

Parking - Sutton Council

Parking review - Sutton Council

Ambitious for Sutton 2022-2027 - Sutton Council

School admissions - Sutton Council

Home - Sutton Council

Ways to contact us - Sutton Council

Building control - Sutton 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

August 2025

July 2025

London Borough of Sutton Council

Title / URL	Issues
About the Mayor - Sutton Councilwww.sutton.gov.uk/w/about-the-mayor	20
Sutton Scene - Sutton Councilwww.sutton.gov.uk/w/sutton-scene	20
The Mayor's Charities 2024-2025 - Sutton Councilwww.sutton.gov.uk/w/the-mayor-s-charities	20
Parking - Sutton Councilwww.sutton.gov.uk/parking	20
Parking review - Sutton Councilwww.sutton.gov.uk/w/parking-review	20
Ambitious for Sutton 2022-2027 - Sutton Councilwww.sutton.gov.uk/ambitiousforsutton	20
School admissions - Sutton Councilwww.sutton.gov.uk/school-admissions	20
Home - Sutton Councilwww.sutton.gov.uk/web/guest	20
Ways to contact us - Sutton Councilwww.sutton.gov.uk/ways-to-contact-us	20
Building control - Sutton Councilwww.sutton.gov.uk/building-control	20

Ensure focus is not fully obscured

London Borough of Sutton Council

Where this issue has occurred