Water Quality – Longreach Regional Council

Pay a bill – Longreach Regional Council

Find Your Future – Longreach Regional Council

Pollution – Longreach Regional Council

Animals & Pets – Longreach Regional Council

Roads – Longreach Regional Council

Services & Facilities – Longreach Regional Council

Swimming Pools – Longreach Regional Council

Values and Benefits – Longreach Regional Council

How to Contact Us – Longreach Regional 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

January 2025

December 2024

Longreach Regional Council

Title / URL	Issues
Water Quality – Longreach Regional Councilwww.longreach.qld.gov.au/water-quality	1
Pay a bill – Longreach Regional Councilwww.longreach.qld.gov.au/online-payments	1
Find Your Future – Longreach Regional Councilwww.longreach.qld.gov.au/find-future	1
Pollution – Longreach Regional Councilwww.longreach.qld.gov.au/pollution	1
Animals & Pets – Longreach Regional Councilwww.longreach.qld.gov.au/animals	1
Roads – Longreach Regional Councilwww.longreach.qld.gov.au/roads	1
Services & Facilities – Longreach Regional Councilwww.longreach.qld.gov.au/services	1
Swimming Pools – Longreach Regional Councilwww.longreach.qld.gov.au/swimming-pools	1
Values and Benefits – Longreach Regional Councilwww.longreach.qld.gov.au/values-benefits	1
How to Contact Us – Longreach Regional Councilwww.longreach.qld.gov.au/contact	1

Ensure focus is not fully obscured

Longreach Regional Council

Where this issue has occurred