What a wild and wonderful year it’s been. Our team was on fire. We cemented Stark as the first end-to-end platform for accessibility, and so much good stuff came with that. Let’s dive into everything now available on the platform!

The all-new Stark Web app enables real-time monitoring of accessibility—from design and code to the live product.

In 2023, Stark made the concept of Continuous Accessibility a reality. Now you and your team can monitor, manage, and report on all accessibility work progress—as assets like Figma files, Github repos, and Live URLs in your Projects are continuously checked. What's more, you can identify exactly where the accessibility issues arise, and watch the issue count go down in real-time as your teammates fix errors with help in Stark’s integrations.

Hello, World. Stark for Developers brings the magic of Stark’s accessibility tooling to code.

Our first solution tailored specifically to the needs of software engineers, it includes: Stark for GitHub, Stark’s Web Dev tools with live code highlighting in the browser, and Developer hand-off tools using Figma’s Dev Mode. Stark’s new, fully-integrated developer solution can save up to 100x of the cost of traditional methods, and help your team ensure continuous accessibility across the entire product development cycle.

Manage your company’s entire accessibility posture in the Compliance Center with the same rigor as privacy and security.

Establishing efficient accessibility practices and growing your company’s accessibility maturity goes way beyond product development tooling. With Stark’s Compliance Center you now have one central place to manage your company’s entire accessibility posture—transparently, actionable, and evidence-backed.

We literally made you a 10x designer with Sidekick. Stark now automatically finds accessibility issues, and suggests fixes.

Sidekick brings in the intelligence and speed of AI, while ensuring you’re still the one in charge of the final design outcome. What’s even better? While Sidekick removes the hard work of manual checks (it’s more than 10x faster!), it levels up every team member’s knowledge about digital accessibility through built-in education.

The smoothest design-to-dev handoff in the business.

Designers, content designers, copywriters, and engineers all benefit from Stark’s enhanced annotations: ARIA notes to improve digital accessibility for assistive technologies like screen readers, Headings annotations so your developers get a clear understanding of the hierarchy of your designs, and Touch Targets offers suggestions for AAA and AA WCAG standards. Plus, annotations show up (with code snippets) in Figma’s Dev Mode!

And we’re glad you're one of the 33,000 companies using Stark. With that said, that's officially a wrap for 2023! Please let us know what you think on Twitter or join our community on Slack. We’re happy to help. Chat to you in the new year!

💜 Cat and the Stark team