Feedback | Sheffield Health and Social Care

I'm feeling depressed | Sheffield Health and Social Care

I'm worried about food or my weight | Sheffield Health and Social Care

An event has affected me | Sheffield Health and Social Care

I feel anxious | Sheffield Health and Social Care

I'm feeling stressed | Sheffield Health and Social Care

I'm having difficulty sleeping | Sheffield Health and Social Care

I think I have OCD | Sheffield Health and Social Care

Gender Identity Clinic | Sheffield Health and Social Care

Research | Sheffield Health and Social Care

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

Sheffield Health and Social Care NHS Foundation Trust

Title / URL	Issues
Feedback \| Sheffield Health and Social Carewww.shsc.nhs.uk/feedback	23
I'm feeling depressed \| Sheffield Health and Social Carewww.shsc.nhs.uk/selfhelp/depressed	23
I'm worried about food or my weight \| Sheffield Health and Social Carewww.shsc.nhs.uk/selfhelp/eating	20
An event has affected me \| Sheffield Health and Social Carewww.shsc.nhs.uk/selfhelp/event-has-affected-me	20
I feel anxious \| Sheffield Health and Social Carewww.shsc.nhs.uk/selfhelp/anxious	20
I'm feeling stressed \| Sheffield Health and Social Carewww.shsc.nhs.uk/selfhelp/stress	19
I'm having difficulty sleeping \| Sheffield Health and Social Carewww.shsc.nhs.uk/selfhelp/sleep	18
I think I have OCD \| Sheffield Health and Social Carewww.shsc.nhs.uk/selfhelp/OCD	18
Gender Identity Clinic \| Sheffield Health and Social Carewww.shsc.nhs.uk/services/gender-identity-clinic	18
Research \| Sheffield Health and Social Carewww.shsc.nhs.uk/get-involved/research	17

Ensure focus is not fully obscured

Sheffield Health and Social Care NHS Foundation Trust

Where this issue has occurred