You face the South, Huitztlampa, land of thorns and flowers. Huitzilopochtli watches over what grows. The scene takes on turquoise tones of Xiuhtecuhtli mosaic.
You enter the noon. Here, what burns leaves a mark.
Nuada · RGAA accessibility audit
The auditor who codes the fix.
The market reality
The French RGAA accessibility audit market is mature but paradoxical. Large firms deliver 80-page PDF reports, structured against the 106 criteria of the standard, listing each non-compliance with a screenshot and a generic recommendation. The engineering teams receiving those reports are often left helpless: how do you translate "improve link focus contrast" into a concrete pull request? Nuada starts from that observation to propose something else.
The technical stance
Each non-compliance identified by Nuada is delivered with directly implementable fix code, tested on a client project fork when possible. No vague "recommendation," no "to investigate on the team side": a Git diff, an explanation of why, a non-regression test. The auditor becomes a temporary contributor, not a consultant leaving behind a knot of problems.
Site architecture
Astro for static generation, native i18n for fr/en/es with no overhead, MDX for long-form articles, Netlify hosting with preview branches for each new piece of content. The site itself is RGAA 4.1 compliant by construction · no post-audit patching, every component is designed accessible from the start. A test-driven a11y approach that serves as its own example.
What Nuada teaches me
Building Nuada forced me to formalize what was implicit: what I did intuitively on client missions (deliver code rather than text) becomes a reproducible method. The real deliverable of an accessibility audit isn't a document, it's a codebase more accessible than before.
Next steps
Once the RGAA certification is validated (access42 exam October 23, 2026), Nuada can move from showcase site to real tool: partial audit automation via axe-core in CI, before/after comparator on pull request, public library of reusable accessible patterns.
A song for this direction
Yn quetzalizquixochitl aya
oitzmolinico
mimilihui, cueponih,
in tepilhuan in quauhtli ocelotl
yxquich oncuetlahui ya
quexquich onquiçaquiuh huiya
quexquich onmomanaquiuh in tlalticpac
The precious izquixochitl
has come to green again,
it sprouts, it opens:
these are the princes, the eagle, the jaguar.
Everything withers,
all that comes to appear,
all that comes to be on the earth.