You are entering the deer's sanctuary. At the center of a great carved stone disc, a stag stands still in the dry grass, maize around him. This is the hearth, the centre the four directions run from: the gold of dawn to the east, the turquoise of noon to the south, the red of dusk to the west, the violet of night to the north. The deer is your nahual: the essence revealed in animal form.
You return to the hearth. The warmth you carry is the warmth of the first day.
Accessibility statement
Nahual is committed to making its site accessible under the French General Accessibility Improvement Reference (RGAA) version 4.1.
Uncheck to disable WASD (cardinal navigation) and gamepad button shortcuts. Modifier shortcuts (Alt+arrows) and Escape remain active · they are not subject to WCAG 2.1.4 / RGAA 12.10.
Try it yourself
A statement says what was done. It does not prove it. Here are three things to try, right here on this page: the machine answers live.
The keyboard
Press Tab. The line below reads, at each move, the accessible name of the element you reached: exactly what a screen reader would announce. A missing name would show up here at once.
Reduced motion
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Reading mode
The three-dimensional scene is cut and the site becomes a text, with its songs and its chapters. The content does not change: it is the same page, without the set.
Conformance status
No full RGAA audit has been carried out on this site yet. It therefore cannot state a conformance rate, and does not. What follows is a self-assessment, with its measurements. What is measured and automated: zero violations reported by axe-core across the five pages, in both faces and all three languages; the keyboard path is checked by an automated test, at the top of the page and after the closing act; document text contrast is checked in both faces. The full audit, criterion by criterion, is planned after the RGAA examination in October 2026. Its rate and its list of non-conformities will be published here.
Non-accessible content
The three-dimensional scene is INTERACTIVE, not decorative: it can be explored with a keyboard and a gamepad, it can be oriented, it can be paused. Everything it tells also exists outside it. The alternatives: reading mode turns the scene off and renders the same page as text, with its songs and its chapters; a pause control freezes movement (the G key or the button in the column, WCAG 2.2.2); the system's reduced-motion preference is honoured; a text description of the scene is available. What remains to be checked: rendering on a real screen reader has not yet been tested on every page, and the demonstration on this page recomputes the accessible name rather than reading the browser's own, which may diverge.
How this statement was prepared
Statement prepared on 28 August 2026, updated on 15 September 2026, on the basis of a self-assessment. Technologies: HTML, CSS, JavaScript, WebGL. Tools: axe-core, Playwright. Test environment: Chromium and WebKit, on desktop and on emulated mobile. Pages tested: the home page, the four directions, the Codex, the site map, this page. Three languages. An external audit is planned after the RGAA certification is obtained, in October 2026.
Feedback and contact
To report an access issue or obtain an alternative version of content, contact bonjour@nahual.fr. If no response within 60 days, contact the French Rights Defender: https://www.defenseurdesdroits.fr.
Keyboard shortcuts
Alt+Up/Right/Down/Left Arrow: direct cardinal navigation (up=Memory North, right=Services East, down=Projects South, left=Contact West). WASD (QWERTY) or ZQSD (AZERTY) · independent of physical layout · same cardinal grid: W/Z=Memory, D=Services, S=Projects, A/Q=Contact, C=Home (Center). Escape: return home. Scene controls (single letters): H hides or shows the text, F full screen, T contemplation (the text fades out, the scene settles on Tenochtitlan's real time, the actual height of the sun over Mexico City, then plays the whole day in a loop while the camera slowly orbits; any gesture stops it and brings the text back as it was), P photo of the scene, L copies the link to this moment, E eco mode. These shortcuts obey the same switch as the others.
Gamepad shortcuts
A USB or Bluetooth gamepad (Xbox, PlayStation, standard) is auto-detected. D-pad: cardinal navigation (up=Memory, right=Services, down=Projects, left=Contact). A/B buttons (Xbox) or Cross/Circle (PlayStation): return home.
A song for this direction
Ninoyolnonotza,
campa nicuiz yectli auiacaxochitl?
ac nictlatlaniz?
manoço yehuatl nictlatlani in quetzalhuitzitziltzin,
in chalchiuhhuitzitzicatzin
I speak with my heart:
where shall I gather the fine, fragrant flowers?
Whom shall I ask?
Perhaps the precious hummingbird,
the hummingbird the colour of jade?