Future Students | SUNY Adirondack

Parents & Families | SUNY Adirondack

Faculty & Staff | SUNY Adirondack

Community | SUNY Adirondack

Our region | SUNY Adirondack

Policies | SUNY Adirondack

College Access | SUNY Adirondack

Academics | SUNY Adirondack

Careers | SUNY Adirondack

Alumni & Foundation | SUNY Adirondack

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

January 2025

December 2024

State University of New York at Adirondack

Title / URL	Issues
Future Students \| SUNY Adirondackwww.sunyacc.edu/future-students	32
Parents & Families \| SUNY Adirondackwww.sunyacc.edu/parents-families	21
Faculty & Staff \| SUNY Adirondackwww.sunyacc.edu/faculty-staff	16
Community \| SUNY Adirondackwww.sunyacc.edu/community	14
Our region \| SUNY Adirondackwww.sunyacc.edu/our-campus/our-region	13
Policies \| SUNY Adirondackwww.sunyacc.edu/policies	12
College Access \| SUNY Adirondackwww.sunyacc.edu/college-access	11
Academics \| SUNY Adirondackwww.sunyacc.edu/academics	10
Careers \| SUNY Adirondackwww.sunyacc.edu/careers	10
Alumni & Foundation \| SUNY Adirondackwww.sunyacc.edu/alumni-foundation	10

Ensure focus is not fully obscured

State University of New York at Adirondack

Where this issue has occurred