Royal Navy Police | Royal Navy

Medical Assistant | Royal Navy Jobs | Surface Fleet

Become a Royal Marines Officer in the Royal Navy

Air Traffic Control Officer | Royal Navy Jobs - Fleet Air Arm

Logistics Officer | Royal Navy Jobs | Surface Fleet

Air Engineer Officer | Royal Navy Jobs in the Fleet Air Arm

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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)

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Royal Navy

Title / URL	Issues
Royal Navy Police \| Royal Navywww.royalnavy.mod.uk/careers/roles/royal-navy-police	41
Medical Assistant \| Royal Navy Jobs \| Surface Fleetwww.royalnavy.mod.uk/careers/roles/medical-assistant	39
Become a Royal Marines Officer in the Royal Navywww.royalnavy.mod.uk/careers/roles/royal-marines-commando-officer	37
Air Traffic Control Officer \| Royal Navy Jobs - Fleet Air Armwww.royalnavy.mod.uk/careers/roles/air-traffic-control-officer	35
Logistics Officer \| Royal Navy Jobs \| Surface Fleetwww.royalnavy.mod.uk/careers/roles/logistics-officer	33
Air Engineer Officer \| Royal Navy Jobs in the Fleet Air Armwww.royalnavy.mod.uk/careers/roles/air-engineer-officer	33
First time visit: View without clicking anythingwww.royalnavy.mod.uk/	5

Ensure focus is not fully obscured

Royal Navy

Where this issue has occurred