Repairs and maintenance | Progress Housing Group

Rent and service charges | Progress Housing Group

Buy or acquire your existing home | Progress Housing Group

Safe homes | Progress Housing Group

Progress Housing Group | Progress Housing Group

Join our Brighter Futures programme | Progress Housing Group

Community Investment Fund | Progress Housing Group

Tenants' Voice - Improving Services (Our tenant-led scrutiny group) | Progress Housing Group

Charity Fund | Progress Housing Group

Tenant inspectors and mystery shopping | Progress Housing Group

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

Progress Housing Group Limited

Title / URL	Issues
Repairs and maintenance \| Progress Housing Groupwww.progressgroup.org.uk/repair/	33
Rent and service charges \| Progress Housing Groupwww.progressgroup.org.uk/pay/	33
Buy or acquire your existing home \| Progress Housing Groupwww.progressgroup.org.uk/rtb/	29
Safe homes \| Progress Housing Groupwww.progressgroup.org.uk/home-safety/	25
Progress Housing Group \| Progress Housing Groupwww.progressgroup.org.uk/	23
Join our Brighter Futures programme \| Progress Housing Groupwww.progressgroup.org.uk/brighterfutures/	23
Community Investment Fund \| Progress Housing Groupwww.progressgroup.org.uk/community-investment/	22
Tenants' Voice - Improving Services (Our tenant-led scrutiny group) \| Progress Housing Groupwww.progressgroup.org.uk/scrutiny/	22
Charity Fund \| Progress Housing Groupwww.progressgroup.org.uk/charity-fund/	21
Tenant inspectors and mystery shopping \| Progress Housing Groupwww.progressgroup.org.uk/myst-shopping/	20

Ensure focus is not fully obscured

Progress Housing Group Limited

Where this issue has occurred