General Practice | NHS Lanarkshire

Winter Health | NHS Lanarkshire

Cost of Living | NHS Lanarkshire

Spring Health | NHS Lanarkshire

2020-May-27-Board-Papers | NHS Lanarkshire

Patients treated outwith NHSL | NHS Lanarkshire

Visiting someone in hospital | NHS Lanarkshire

NHS Lanarkshire

I am coming for an out patient appointment | NHS Lanarkshire

Shingles Vaccine | NHS Lanarkshire

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

	Title / URL	Issues
	General Practice \| NHS Lanarkshirewww.nhslanarkshire.scot.nhs.uk/your-health/winter-health/gp/	2
	Winter Health \| NHS Lanarkshirewww.nhslanarkshire.scot.nhs.uk/your-health/winter-health/	2
	Cost of Living \| NHS Lanarkshirewww.nhslanarkshire.scot.nhs.uk/services/cost-of-living/	2
	Spring Health \| NHS Lanarkshirewww.nhslanarkshire.scot.nhs.uk/your-health/spring-health/	2
	2020-May-27-Board-Papers \| NHS Lanarkshirewww.nhslanarkshire.scot.nhs.uk/download/2020-may-27-board-papers/	2
	Patients treated outwith NHSL \| NHS Lanarkshirewww.nhslanarkshire.scot.nhs.uk/foi/patients-treated-outwith-nhsl/	2
	Visiting someone in hospital \| NHS Lanarkshirewww.nhslanarkshire.scot.nhs.uk/hospitals/visiting/	2
	NHS Lanarkshirewww.nhslanarkshire.scot.nhs.uk/	2
	I am coming for an out patient appointment \| NHS Lanarkshirewww.nhslanarkshire.scot.nhs.uk/out-patients/	2
	Shingles Vaccine \| NHS Lanarkshirewww.nhslanarkshire.scot.nhs.uk/vaccinations/shingles/	2

Ensure focus is not fully obscured

NHS Lanarkshire

Where this issue has occurred