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Psssst 🤫 We're launching something new and are super excited about it. Want in on it? Like this tweet 💜
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Today we're opening our virtual doors to the Stark Public Library, becoming the largest, centralized accessibility resource on the internet! 📚🎉
Discover the world's best a11y info, guides, events, courses, and more—curated & created by us for you
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It's here and live! 🎉 Today, we're proud to introduce Stark for Mac. Available to everyone, for free, on the Mac App Store.
Download it now! 👉
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Today's the day! 🎉 Announcing Stark for Mac—streamlining accessibility compliance to save your team time, money, and effort through end-to-end collaboration.
Join the private beta 👇
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Even if you are fully vaccinated the CDC still recommends that you start your design projects with accessibility in mind.
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It's here! 🚀We're stoked to release Smart Suggestions to you to help take the guess work out of accessible color selection.
From failing to updated design—be it in an individual file or design library—and hand the new value off to devs in sub 30sec!⚡️
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A massive day for our team! Announcing our $1.5M in funding, centralized billing, and a re-brand. We partnered with
@indicatorvc
,
@darlingvc
, and some of the world's best tech leaders. Here's to the future of accessibility in software.
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🎉Bam! Say hello to Stark—the color-blind simulator and contrast checker for Sketch.
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Oh you know, just tightening up some visual design and functionality on a highly requested
@figmadesign
plugin. No big deal.
#figmaplugin
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Design and code in the browser just got accessible with Stark for Chrome 🎉
Whether you're a designer pushing pixels in a browser, or a developer that's making code tweaks, there is something baked into our chrome extension for everyone!
Learn more 🚀
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Introducing an all new Stark for
@Figma
,
@Sketch
, and
@googlechrome
! 🎉 Better organization, a simplified UI, and more accuracy to design and build beautifully accessible products.
Let’s dive into what’s new 👇
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Oh uh, hey designers and developers! We've had about 1...or...300+ or so ask if Stark is on
@figmadesign
.
And YESSSS, actually! Stark IS on Figma! 🤩(this will be a thread for today's excitement)
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💡 Accessibility Pro-Tip: Don't forget button states!
Ensure UI components like buttons, checkboxes, form fields, etc. have a variety of states designed and developed—with ~3:1 contrast ratio for people with visual impairments using assistive tech like screen readers 💜
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So a little birdie told us you love a good accessibility checklist. 😉 And guess what?!
We brought Stark’s Accessibility Checklists to
@Figma
to streamline your team’s workflow from ideation to production.
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When you have an administration that can represent and see disability, accessibility no longer ends up on the back burner.
Thank you,
@JoeBiden
and
@KamalaHarris
. Kudos to the entire campaign and
@Transition46
team!
cc
@robynkanner
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Scare a designer in 3 words or less. We'll go first: Make it pop.
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Introducing Accessibility Whiteboarding with Stark for FigJam! ✏️ 🗒️ 💜
Check accessibility tasks off your lists to track cross-discipline progress, leave sticky notes to discuss action items, expand your knowledge on specific a11y topics & more.
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PSA: Accessibility and beautiful design are not mutually exclusive 🗣
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Introducing Focus Order! 🔍🎉
Making it possible to document thoughtful sequences for keyboard users navigating or tabbing through your product, and bridging the handoff and educational process from designers to engineers.
Read more —
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How you think How it
your inaccessible Actually works
design works
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Today, we’re pumped to unveil the all-new Stark Suite, giving you even more browser extensions and pro tools to work with 🚀
We'll dive into all you get now with the expansion 🧵👇
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Farewell, Modal! Hello, Plugin Panel in
@AdobeXD
🤩We're thrilled to deliver an entirely new (alternate) experience of contrast checking with Stark!
Out of your way, faster, and smarter than ever before.
Go try it now (this is a deep link)👉
#XDPlugins
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🆕 Accessible Design Library (Beta).
Making it possible to kick off new projects accessible from the very start. 💜
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Activate: Generator 🤖 Say hello to Stark's Colorblind Generator! 🤩
The generator enables you to skip the Colorblind Sim preview in favor of a much more instantaneous and efficient solution that can span disciplines in your org.
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😎😜 See ya soon, Figma lovers.
I'm so so so excited about this. Along with the
@figmadesign
team I built a few plugins during our "Maker Week" a month ago and they are SUPER FUN to make. Can't wait to see what the community builds!
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roses are red
violets are blue
accessibility benefits everyone
including you.
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🚀 If you've been loving the contrast checker, go open
@figmadesign
and give your all new Colorblind Simulator a spin! 🤯
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⚡️ [Update + Post] We tidied up so the Stark UI sparks joy 🥰 Read all about it and update!
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When you put accessibility first, you embark on a journey to make the lives of millions of people better.
That's beautiful.
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A massive milestone! Over 500,000 of you have installed and used Stark to date. We've been so pumped and focused that we almost missed it! 🎉
Thank you, 500,000 times to the moon and back 💜
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Kudos to
@Zappos
as they start selling single shoes and mixed size pairs to cater to people with disabilities and other special needs—from different sized feet to those with prosthetics—which can create a need for different sized shoes.
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🚀 Update your design software, folks. Blurred Vision joins the different options available in our Vision Simulator!
P.S. Did you know 70% of all adults suffer from blurred vision, back pain, and headaches just because of staring at a computer screen?! 🤯
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💡 Accessibility Pro-Tip: Don’t rely on color alone
Having alternate visual cues like shapes or even patterns is the best way to ensure people understand what they’re looking without relying solely on the color—which many folks don’t see in the same way.
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📢 WE HAVE BIG NEWS x2! 📢
For starters, we're excited to announce the Stark integration for
@AdobeXD
coming soon to help you design and build products that are accessible, ethical, and inclusive. We're smitten kittens sitting next to amazing companies.
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Our designer
@treggify
deep dives into his experience being colorblind, the efficacy of simulating color blindness, how to appropriately use simulations, where they fall short, and why that's okay.
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We’re loving the color change,
@github
friends! 🐙 Check out what a big difference continuous accessibility updates make for the product.
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New year, new launch, introducing Landmarks ⚡️
Annotate Landmarks directly in your design platform of choice—saving developers a ton of time and empowering you to create digital products that work exactly as they intended to.
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Want to join a Twitter community dedicated to discussing and learning about accessibility? Like this tweet for an invite.
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🚀 Blast off! Introducing the Stark WCAG Audit (beta) with easy-to-read, downloadable reports.
Scan any webpage, see how it scores against WCAG’s accessibility guidelines, and discover exactly what updates need to be made in design and code.
Read more
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✨ As of today, Stark is FREE for students and educators!
From primary schools and universities, to education programs like design and code bootcamps — all are eligible.
Learn how to get started! 👇
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Did you know that AirPods can also be hearing aids? 🦻
Follow for more tips:
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We’re so excited to partner with
@DarlingVC
and
@IndicatorVC
, along with some of the world’s best tech leaders in announcing our $1.5M pre-seed funding! Here’s to making software products accessible to everyone.
via
@ingridlunden
@TechCrunch
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‼️San Francisco! We're having our first Stark event on Nov 14th. Join us at
@Adobe
in SF for:
– Networking, food, drinks
– A roundtable discussion about technology & design's impact on a city, its citizens, and the ripple effect.
Go get your ticket! 👉
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What an honor! We're over the moon excited to learn that
@getstarkco
was used to build an accessible design system at
@NASA
🚀
Thank you
@welinske
for the shout out and glowing review
#axecon
🥰
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📣 Attn: Design System Lovers. Today we’re thrilled to introduce the brand-new color picker!
🔍 Advanced Selection Detection.
🎨 Finally! Pick and check colors from your design library and local styles (for Pro users).
🤖 And smarter.
Let’s dive in...
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"The problem with loving where you work is that you start believing they love you back. They don’t. Everyone gets laid off when the ground freezes." —
@monteiro
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Welcome to the Stark side. 🌑🌙
Say hello to Dark Mode in Stark for Figma, Sketch, and Chrome.
Check it out now!
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Even if you are fully vaccinated the CDC still recommends that you start your design projects with accessibility in mind.
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Humans don’t perceive their surroundings individually and equally. Instead, we organize them in specific ways to make sense of them as a whole.
The Fundamentals Behind Visual Hierarchy
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The designer urge to redo your portfolio for the fourth time in a month.
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If Jack can step down from twitter, you can add alt text to your images
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Accessibility is not a feature to sell, every design should be accessible by default
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We released an update to Stark's Public Library! ⚡️ With the latest, you're getting:
🔍 A highly requested search engine
📚 Collections (of content with a wide range of topics)
➕ A "newly added" content section
Learn more
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From the anatomy of a text field to accessibility checks for it, this post shows you how to go about properly styling text fields.
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15% of the world's population has some form of disability. That's about 1.5 billion people, it's not enough to consider accessibility, it has to be the standard.
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Give us your elevator pitch for accessibility (best one wins a sweet stark tee)
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Big
#a11y
news coming from Colorado!
It has become the first state in the U.S to require government sites to meet accessibility standards 🙌
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Oh hey
@figmadesign
lovers! *does super sweet dance move* ...A solution to your a11y needs is on its way.💃
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Accessibility Pro-Tip: Create meaningful HTML structure
For folks using assistive technology or a keyboard, a solid HTML structure removes the challenge of having to go through blocks of content—when all they want is navigate to one section of the page or to complete a task
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With the launch of the Public Library, we're THRILLED to announce our acquisition of
@a11yresources_
Read all about our big plans for the Library here👇
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We spent the last 9 months re-imagining the future of accessibility, and we believe the world requires an update to the way we build products — for everyone. And that starts with supercharging accessibility collaboration for teams.
Read the announcement
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"Most of the time, A/B testing is worthless. The time spent designing, running, analyzing, and taking action on an A/B test will usually outweigh the value of picking the more desirable option."
What are your thoughts on A/B testing? 👍 or 👎 and why?
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🤯🤩🥰🖤 Hooray!
Got the most delightful
@figmadesign
software update today, now with
@getstarkco
contrast plugin! 🔥
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Sooo did anyone else nerd out over the accessibility enhancements in iOS14?
We put together a list of stand out features from the latest update and detailed how they allow *everyone* to benefit.✨
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When they post an emoji meme without thinking about screen readers 🚩 (x150)
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To build truly accessible products, accessibility has to be a foundational.
Thank you and big applause to the 5,000 corporations around the world that trust us to provide the tech and resources as you work to ensure your products can be used by everyone. 🎉
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2022 wasn’t just a big year for Stark but for accessibility as a whole—with breakthroughs in everything from technology and politics, to gaming and space exploration! 🚀
Check out some of what we’re most excited about, in our Accessibility Year in Review!
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Oh did we mention we have TikTok now? 👀
If you want some bite-sized accessibility tips give it a follow 👇
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Using
@figmadesign
or
@sketch
? Persistent UI is now available! Run Stark and stick the window wherever you want. Continue to click around, and use it throughout your file without needing to ever close it. ✨Magic ✨
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👾 Introducing: A new way to check contrast with our first beta release of APCA in Stark for Figma, Sketch, and our browser extensions.
And a chance to jam more with our community. Let us tell you what this means and why...
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Hey, that’s us! 😍 Thanks
@TechCrunch
for covering the big reveal 🎉
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