Accessibility

Our rooms have had people in their twenties and people in their seventies, people who read Nepali more easily than English, people who use a screen reader, and people who came alone and were nervous about it. This page says what we do so the website and the nights work for all of them, and what we have not done yet.

What we hold ourselves to

We build theguestlistnepal.com to the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 2.2 at level AA. That is the standard our design system names, and the one we check each page against before it ships.

What that means on this site

• Everything works with a keyboard alone. The first Tab on any page offers a link that skips the navigation.
• Where your focus is, you can see it: a dark ring on light pages, a light ring on dark ones.
• Buttons and links are at least 44 pixels tall, so a thumb lands on them.
• Text is at least 17 pixels, with 13-pixel labels reserved for short uppercase words, and every colour of text reads at 4.5 to 1 or better against what it sits on.
• Nothing stops you zooming. The pages are one column and reflow down to a 320-pixel-wide screen without sideways scrolling.
• If your device asks for less motion, the site moves less: things appear rather than slide, and nothing pulses.
• Every field has a visible label. When something is wrong with a form, the message sits under the field, is read aloud, and the cursor is put there.
• Photographs carry a description. Founder videos never play on their own, and nothing you need — a date, a price, a venue — is only in a video.
• A link that leaves the site says so before it opens a new tab.
• When you first join, your date of birth is typed as day, month and year — not scrolled back through a date picker.
• The site is in English, with Nepali translations for its copy. When the language changes, the page tells your screen reader so.

What is not there yet

We would rather say so than let you find out.

• No one has yet gone through the site with us using a screen reader from start to finish. If you use one and would, we would like to hear from you.
• A Nepali line inside an English page is not yet marked as Nepali for a screen reader. We are adding that as the Nepali copy lands.

At a night

Tell us before you come — what you need, what would make the first ten minutes easier — and we will tell you plainly what the room is like: stairs or none, how loud it gets, where the quiet corner is, whether there is somewhere to sit the whole time. There is always someone from our team near the entrance, and the person who explains the first round will explain it again to you on your own if that helps. Coming alone is normal.

Tell us

If something on this site or at a night did not work for you, write to info@theguestlistnepal.com or message us on WhatsApp. Say which page or which night, and what happened. One of us reads it, and we answer within a week.

— Samiksha Gurung and Samman Bikram Thapa