Contact Us | Royal Berkshire Fire and Rescue Service

Page not found | Royal Berkshire Fire and Rescue Service

News and Events | Royal Berkshire Fire and Rescue Service

Site Map | Royal Berkshire Fire and Rescue Service

Privacy and Data Processing | Royal Berkshire Fire and Rescue Service

Vacancies | Royal Berkshire Fire and Rescue Service

Your Service | Royal Berkshire Fire and Rescue Service

Your Safety | Royal Berkshire Fire and Rescue Service

Fire Stations | Royal Berkshire Fire and Rescue Service

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

May 2024

April 2024

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Title / URL	Issues
Contact Us \| Royal Berkshire Fire and Rescue Servicewww.rbfrs.co.uk/contact-us/	11
Page not found \| Royal Berkshire Fire and Rescue Servicewww.rbfrs.co.uk/invented-url-for-404-page	10
News and Events \| Royal Berkshire Fire and Rescue Servicewww.rbfrs.co.uk/news-and-events/	9
Site Map \| Royal Berkshire Fire and Rescue Servicewww.rbfrs.co.uk/site-map/	9
Privacy and Data Processing \| Royal Berkshire Fire and Rescue Servicewww.rbfrs.co.uk/privacy-and-data-processing/	6
Vacancies \| Royal Berkshire Fire and Rescue Servicewww.rbfrs.co.uk/careers/vacancies/	5
Vacancies \| Royal Berkshire Fire and Rescue Servicewww.rbfrs.co.uk/rbfrs-careers/vacancies/	5
Your Service \| Royal Berkshire Fire and Rescue Servicewww.rbfrs.co.uk/your-service/	3
Your Safety \| Royal Berkshire Fire and Rescue Servicewww.rbfrs.co.uk/your-safety/	3
Fire Stations \| Royal Berkshire Fire and Rescue Servicewww.rbfrs.co.uk/your-service/fire-stations/	2

Ensure focus is not fully obscured

Royal Berkshire Fire and Rescue Service

Where this issue has occurred