Making your products accessible just got a lot easier. The new Stark Mac app streamlines accessibility compliance, saving your team time, money, and effort through end-to-end collaboration
Hey Product Hunt! I’m always thrilled to be here, but today is different. I’m overwhelmed with excitement as we launch Stark for Mac into private beta—streamlining accessibility compliance and in turn saving teams time, money, and effort through end-to-end collaboration.
Our mission at Stark has always been to provide the most valuable tools, educational material, and community around accessibility. We’ve long known that catering to only one discipline in an organization was counterproductive, and we’ve worked hard to enable everyone—from design and engineers to QA and stakeholders—to bake accessibility into the product development process from the beginning, while ensuring teams with legacy tech debt have a solution for retrofitting their software.
Today, we do just that. Stark for Mac in private beta allows you to do some incredible things out of the box:
* Import and sync your design files
* Inspect and rectify accessibility issues
* Supercharge accessibility collaboration
With almost 2 billion people worldwide with a documented disability, and a fast increasing number of individuals navigating the world undiagnosed, disability can no longer be seen as an edge case.
In a world where we’re landing objects on Mars, it’s time software for accessibility become intelligent, automated, and optimized to fit into our workflows. The world requires an update to the way we build products – for everyone. Let’s shake the space up! Welcome to Stark for Mac (private beta, for now). We can’t wait to see how you’ll build software for everyone. And for you to see what's coming ;)
@imcatnoone so great to see you and the team consistently shipping! So easy to be a customer here at Folktale, and so easy to see our ability to serve our users leapfrogging as a result.
PS: now I've got the "na na naaa nana nana naaaah" music from the video stuck in my head!
@davedri hahah I've had it stuck in my head and I can't stop listening! David, this means so much coming from you. I love knowing the team at Folktale is truly delivering better experiences because of Stark.
Hey all! This is my first big launch with the Stark team and I couldn't be more excited. The Stark Mac app aims to be a game-changer in making products accessible and thus saving teams time, money, and effort. We are currently onboarding users during the beta period, looking forward to seeing what everyone makes :)
Here to answer any questions you may have!
This is going to be one of the most important tools for teams building (enterprise) software! Congrats on the launch @imcatnoone@aaronoleary and team 🔥
I started my career focussed on making enterprise and government software that was accessible and compliant. Delighted to finally see a solution like Stark make this easier, real time, collaborative and actionable. Go Stark
@aaronoleary I am starting that new role later in October. I'll be leading their design systems efforts, so this will be a great way to potentially incorporate that into the workflow better. Once I get a work email, I'll request access to the beta, but for now I'll send them a message. 😄
@imcatnoone Thank you, much appreciated! I'm both very excited and nervous, haha! I finally get to follow my dream of working on design systems as my main focus.
I cannot wait to dive in! Regardless of what this team builds it is always done with empathy, thoughtfulness, and the desire to make the world more accessible and inclusive.
Congrats y’all! And thanks for making our lives better and easier.
Stark