Mental Health Integrated Network Teams (MINT)

Waterdown Ward :: West London NHS Trust

Avenue House :: West London NHS Trust

Quality and performance publications

Post-Covid rehabilitation :: West London NHS Trust

Can you see me? :: West London NHS Trust

Support for patients :: West London NHS Trust

Café on the hill :: West London NHS Trust

Martin House :: West London NHS Trust

Cassel Hospital (Richmond) :: West London NHS Trust

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 2024

May 2024

West London NHS Trust

Title / URL	Issues
Mental Health Integrated Network Teams (MINT)www.westlondon.nhs.uk/mint	1
Waterdown Ward :: West London NHS Trustwww.westlondon.nhs.uk/our-services/our-locations/waterdown-ward	1
Avenue House :: West London NHS Trustwww.westlondon.nhs.uk/our-services/our-locations/avenue-house	1
Quality and performance publicationswww.westlondon.nhs.uk/about-us/publications	1
Post-Covid rehabilitation :: West London NHS Trustwww.westlondon.nhs.uk/coronavirus/covid-19-recovery	1
Can you see me? :: West London NHS Trustwww.westlondon.nhs.uk/cookie-notice/can-you-see-me	1
Support for patients :: West London NHS Trustwww.westlondon.nhs.uk/patients-and-carers/support-patients	1
Café on the hill :: West London NHS Trustwww.westlondon.nhs.uk/our-services/our-locations/cafe-hill	1
Martin House :: West London NHS Trustwww.westlondon.nhs.uk/our-services/our-locations/martin-house	1
Cassel Hospital (Richmond) :: West London NHS Trustwww.westlondon.nhs.uk/our-services/our-locations/cassel-hospital	1

Ensure focus is not fully obscured

West London NHS Trust

Where this issue has occurred