Workforce and Continuing Education | Workforce

Library | Library

Students | Students

Academics | Academics

Index | MJ Foster Promise

Graduation | Students

STEAM | STEAM

Financial Aid Office | Financial Aid

Registrar | Admissions

Advising | Advising

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)

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July 2025

June 2025

Nunez Community College

	Title / URL	Issues
	Workforce and Continuing Education \| Workforcewww.nunez.edu/workforce/index	94
	Library \| Librarywww.nunez.edu/library/index	88
	Students \| Studentswww.nunez.edu/students/index	85
	Academics \| Academicswww.nunez.edu/academics/index	77
	Index \| MJ Foster Promisewww.nunez.edu/mj-foster-promise/index	75
	Graduation \| Studentswww.nunez.edu/students/graduation	74
	STEAM \| STEAMwww.nunez.edu/steam/index	71
	Financial Aid Office \| Financial Aidwww.nunez.edu/financial-aid	65
	Registrar \| Admissionswww.nunez.edu/admissions/registrar	64
	Advising \| Advisingwww.nunez.edu/advising/index	63

Ensure focus is not fully obscured

Nunez Community College

Where this issue has occurred