University of the Incarnate Word | UIW Home

UIW Admissions | Enrolling Now | Admissions

Page Not Found | UIW Home

Research and Graduate Studies | Research and Graduate Studies

Visit UIW! | Admissions

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

Dreeben School of Education

Financial Aid | Financial Assistance

School of Mathematics, Science and Engineering Home | University of the Incarnate Word

School of Media and Design | /smd | 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	76
Page Not Found \| UIW Homewww.uiw.edu/invented-url-for-404-page	69
Research and Graduate Studies \| Research and Graduate Studieswww.uiw.edu/orgs/index.html	55
Visit UIW! \| Admissionswww.uiw.edu/admissions/visit.html	55
H-E-B School of Business and Administration \| UIWwww.uiw.edu/hebsba/index.html	55
Dreeben School of Educationwww.uiw.edu/education/index.html	54
Financial Aid \| Financial Assistancewww.uiw.edu/finaid/index.html	53
School of Mathematics, Science and Engineering Home \| University of the Incarnate Wordwww.uiw.edu/smse/index.html	52
School of Media and Design \| /smd \| University of the Incarnate Wordwww.uiw.edu/smd/index.html	50

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