Your neighbourhood

Help for families

Anti-social behaviour

Health services and advice

Animal welfare

Paying your rent

Find my nearest | Wokingham

Recognising and supporting carers | Wokingham

Wokingham Council

Highway and local land charge request

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)

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February 2025

January 2025

Title / URL	Issues
Your neighbourhoodwww.wokingham.gov.uk/housing-and-tenants/your-neighbourhood	5
Help for familieswww.wokingham.gov.uk/cost-of-living/help-families	5
Anti-social behaviourwww.wokingham.gov.uk/community-and-safety/anti-social-behaviour	5
Health services and advicewww.wokingham.gov.uk/health/health-services-and-advice	5
Animal welfarewww.wokingham.gov.uk/community-and-safety/animal-welfare	5
Paying your rentwww.wokingham.gov.uk/housing-and-tenants/paying-your-rent	5
Find my nearest \| Wokinghamwww.wokingham.gov.uk/find-my-nearest	4
Recognising and supporting carers \| Wokinghamwww.wokingham.gov.uk/news/2023/recognising-and-supporting-carers	4
Wokingham Councilwww.wokingham.gov.uk/	4
Highway and local land charge requestwww.wokingham.gov.uk/planning/highway-and-local-land-charge-request	4

Ensure focus is not fully obscured

Wokingham Council

Where this issue has occurred