Honors | Royal ISD Administration

Join Our Team | Royal ISD Administration

Dance | Royal ISD Administration

504 | Royal ISD Administration

Vision Resources | Royal ISD Administration

Theater Arts | Royal ISD Administration

Page Not Found | Royal ISD Administration

RES Art & Music | Royal ISD Administration

Student Registration | Royal ISD Administration

Home | Royal ISD Administration

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

June 2025

May 2025

Royal ISD

	Title / URL	Issues
	Honors \| Royal ISD Administrationwww.royal-isd.net/page/honors	6
	Join Our Team \| Royal ISD Administrationwww.royal-isd.net/page/join-our-team	6
	Dance \| Royal ISD Administrationwww.royal-isd.net/page/dance	6
	504 \| Royal ISD Administrationwww.royal-isd.net/page/504	6
	Vision Resources \| Royal ISD Administrationwww.royal-isd.net/page/vision-resources	6
	Theater Arts \| Royal ISD Administrationwww.royal-isd.net/page/theater-arts	6
	Page Not Found \| Royal ISD Administrationwww.royal-isd.net/invented-url-for-404-page	6
	RES Art & Music \| Royal ISD Administrationwww.royal-isd.net/page/res-art-music	6
	Student Registration \| Royal ISD Administrationwww.royal-isd.net/page/25-26-registration	6
	Home \| Royal ISD Administrationwww.royal-isd.net/	6

Ensure focus is not fully obscured

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