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Aaron O'Leary

Stark for Mac Beta - Accessibility optimized, automated, and integrated

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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

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Cat Noone
Maker
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 ;)
Graeme
@imcatnoone so good! congrats to the team!
Cat Noone
Maker
@graeme_fulton Thanks a mill, Graeme! Means a ton coming from you.
David Ryan
@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!
Aaron O'Leary
Maker
@imcatnoone @davedri Have had it stuck in my head a good 12 hours now since seeing the video 😂
Cat Noone
Maker
@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.
Matias Castello
I use Stark’s plugins in Figma daily so I’m naturally very excited about this 🎉 congrats!
Aaron O'Leary
Maker
@imatias So excited to see all the designs you make with the new Mac app!
Cat Noone
Maker
@imatias So so proud knowing y'all use Stark 💜 Thank youuu, Matias!
Reony T
Congrats on launch!! This is exciting. Gonna share with my team at Khan Academy 👏🏼
Aaron O'Leary
Maker
@megaroeny Amazing! Thank you Reony, looking forward to seeing what your team thinks!
Reony T
@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. 😄
Cat Noone
Maker
@megaroeny That's incredible, Reony! Let us know how we can help in any way. We're happy to walk you through the product and help you get set up.
Reony T
@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.
Steven Houessou-adin
🏃🏽‍♂️🔥 on my way
Cat Noone
Maker
@mrstev3n Best answer!
Aaron O'Leary
Maker
@mrstev3n We love to see it!
Arman Nobari
This is incredible!!! 🔥 I've relied on Stark for years, and this just takes it to the next level. Just amazing. Great work to you and your team ✨
Tregg
Maker
@realheritage Thank you for everything you've done for us and the constant support, Arman.
Cat Noone
Maker
@realheritage Arman, this means so so much coming from you. It's been incredible to see what you've used Stark to create.
Benoit Chambon
This looks really awesome! Thanks for sharing ;)
Aaron O'Leary
Maker
@benoit_chambon Thanks Benoit! :D
Cat Noone
Maker
@benoit_chambon Thanks a ton, Benoit! Let us know if you have any questions about how to use Stark in your team's workflow.
Brittany Moline
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.
Aaron O'Leary
Maker
@britmoline Thanks Brittany! Can't wait to see what you think of it!
Cat Noone
Maker
@britmoline Brit, this means the world. Thank you! 💜
Aaron O'Leary
Maker
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!
Cat Noone
Maker
@aaronoleary so so excited to have you on the team, Aaron!
Connor Murphy
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
Cat Noone
Maker
@connorpm Thank you, Connor! That's exactly it. Time to bring accessibility into the future.
Christian Eggert
This is going to be one of the most important tools for teams building (enterprise) software! Congrats on the launch @imcatnoone @aaronoleary and team 🔥
Cat Noone
Maker
@aaronoleary @eggertxyz Yesssss! Thank you, Christian! ⚡️
Aaron O'Leary
Maker
@imcatnoone @eggertxyz Thanks Christian!
Girdharee Saran
Congrats on the launch team 🔥
Aaron O'Leary
Maker
@giri Thanks Girdharee!
Cat Noone
Maker
@giri Thanks so much, Girdharee!
Jason Ogle
Congrats Cat and team! Amazing, important work!
Cat Noone
Maker
@jasonogle Thank you tons, Jason!
Mindaugas Petrutis
yesss, let's go team. congratulations on shipping 🎉
Cat Noone
Maker
@mindaugaslt Thank youuuuu, my friend. 💜
Craig Corbett
Congratulations to the Stark team and @imcatnoone ! Really important tool making real steps towards improving accessibility in enterprise tech!
Cat Noone
Maker
@craig_corbett YES! Thanks so much, Craig.
Maresch
Kudos for demystifying accessibility - this is much needed 💪
Cat Noone
Maker
@maresch_bar1 Thanks so so much! We're certainly trying.
Thalion
This is the thing! I how Stark improves UI design. Congrats to the entire team! 👏
Cat Noone
Maker
@thalion_pb Ah thanks so much, Thalion! <3
Kilian Valkhof
So good 🙌 Congrats to everyone on the Stark team!
Cat Noone
Maker
@kilianvalkhof Thank you!
Mitchell Barchie
Love it
Francoo
landing page does not scroll 🥲
Bogdan Ionita
Mega job with this! <3