Savills UK | Estate Agents & Lettings UK & London | Commercial Property

Savills UK | Farms, Estates & Development Land | Find Rural Property

Savills UK | Find a Property

Savills UK | Find Commercial Property | Buy & Rent Property

Savills UK | Find Homes for Sale

First time visit: View without clicking anything

Savills UK | Planning Consultants | Planning Application Advice & Services

Savills UK | Affordable Housing

Savills UK | 404

Savills UK | Finance Services

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

February 2025

January 2025

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Title / URL	Issues
Savills UK \| Estate Agents & Lettings UK & London \| Commercial Propertywww.savills.co.uk/	100
Savills UK \| Farms, Estates & Development Land \| Find Rural Propertywww.savills.co.uk/find-rural-property/	100
Savills UK \| Find a Propertywww.savills.co.uk/find-a-property/	100
Savills UK \| Find Commercial Property \| Buy & Rent Propertywww.savills.co.uk/find-commercial-property/	100
Savills UK \| Find Homes for Salewww.savills.co.uk/find-residential-property/	99
First time visit: View without clicking anythingwww.savills.co.uk/	57
Savills UK \| Planning Consultants \| Planning Application Advice & Serviceswww.savills.co.uk/services/planning.aspx	29
Savills UK \| Affordable Housingwww.savills.co.uk/sectors/affordable-housing.aspx	23
Savills UK \| 404www.savills.co.uk/invented-url-for-404-page	16
Savills UK \| Finance Serviceswww.savills.co.uk/services/finance.aspx	15

Ensure focus is not fully obscured

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