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UIW Admissions | Enrolling Now | Admissions

Page Not Found | UIW Home

Alumni | Alumni

Visit UIW! | Admissions

H-E-B School of Business and Administration | UIW

Research and Graduate Studies | Research and Graduate Studies

Financial Aid | Financial Assistance

Dreeben School of Education

Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences | College of Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences | University of the Incarnate Word

When selecting a user interface component with the keyboard, the focus indicator must 
not be partly obscured by anything in front of it. This is the stricter version of this check for 
Level AAA.

## 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 2.4.13](https://w3c.github.io/wcag/understanding/focus-not-obscured-enhanced.html)

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Title / URL	Issues
University of the Incarnate Word \| UIW Homewww.uiw.edu/	81
UIW Admissions \| Enrolling Now \| Admissionswww.uiw.edu/admissions/index.html	69
Page Not Found \| UIW Homewww.uiw.edu/invented-url-for-404-page	68
Alumni \| Alumniwww.uiw.edu/alumni/index.html	63
Visit UIW! \| Admissionswww.uiw.edu/admissions/visit.html	58
H-E-B School of Business and Administration \| UIWwww.uiw.edu/hebsba/index.html	55
Research and Graduate Studies \| Research and Graduate Studieswww.uiw.edu/orgs/index.html	55
Financial Aid \| Financial Assistancewww.uiw.edu/finaid/index.html	54
Dreeben School of Educationwww.uiw.edu/education/index.html	54
Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences \| College of Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences \| University of the Incarnate Wordwww.uiw.edu/chass/index.html	52

Ensure focus is not partly obscured

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