Academics | PVAMU Home

Human Resources - HR

Homepage | PVAMU Home

School of Public and Allied Health - School of Public and Allied Health

Page not found | PVAMU Home

Financial Aid - Financial Aid

Parking Management - Parking Management

College of Arts and Sciences - Brailsford College of Arts and Sciences

Marketing and Communications - Marketing and Communications

Office of Institutional Research and Effectiveness - Institutional Research

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

Prairie View A&M University

Title / URL	Issues
Academics \| PVAMU Homewww.pvamu.edu/academics/	5
Human Resources - HRwww.pvamu.edu/hr/	5
Homepage \| PVAMU Homewww.pvamu.edu/	5
School of Public and Allied Health - School of Public and Allied Healthwww.pvamu.edu/spah/	5
Page not found \| PVAMU Homewww.pvamu.edu/invented-url-for-404-page	5
Financial Aid - Financial Aidwww.pvamu.edu/faid/	5
Parking Management - Parking Managementwww.pvamu.edu/parking/	5
College of Arts and Sciences - Brailsford College of Arts and Scienceswww.pvamu.edu/bcas/	5
Marketing and Communications - Marketing and Communicationswww.pvamu.edu/marcomm/	5
Office of Institutional Research and Effectiveness - Institutional Researchwww.pvamu.edu/ir/	5

Ensure focus is not fully obscured

Prairie View A&M University

Where this issue has occurred