First time visit: View without clicking anything

Events Center - Palmer College of Chiropractic

Program and Schedule - Palmer College of Chiropractic

Homepage - Palmer College of Chiropractic

Continuing Education - Palmer College of Chiropractic

Page not found - Palmer College of Chiropractic

Course Calendar - Palmer College of Chiropractic

Speaker Bios - Palmer College of Chiropractic

Palmer Chiropractic Clinics - Palmer College of Chiropractic

Homecoming - Palmer College of Chiropractic

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

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Palmer College of Chiropractic

Title / URL	Issues
First time visit: View without clicking anythingwww.palmer.edu/	24
Events Center - Palmer College of Chiropracticwww.palmer.edu/event-center/	12
Program and Schedule - Palmer College of Chiropracticwww.palmer.edu/program-and-schedule/	11
Homepage - Palmer College of Chiropracticwww.palmer.edu/	11
Continuing Education - Palmer College of Chiropracticwww.palmer.edu/continuing-education/	11
Page not found - Palmer College of Chiropracticwww.palmer.edu/invented-url-for-404-page	11
Course Calendar - Palmer College of Chiropracticwww.palmer.edu/course-calendar/	11
Speaker Bios - Palmer College of Chiropracticwww.palmer.edu/speaker-bios/	11
Palmer Chiropractic Clinics - Palmer College of Chiropracticwww.palmer.edu/clinics/	11
Homecoming - Palmer College of Chiropracticwww.palmer.edu/homecoming/	11

Ensure focus is not fully obscured

Palmer College of Chiropractic

Where this issue has occurred