Today is a truly exciting day for us here at Stark: We’re introducing the next-generation Stark platform built entirely from the ground up for Continuous Accessibility! 

Built for Continuous Accessibility

It’s the most modern accessibility solution in the market, and it’s a massive update: Including the next version of our end-to-end scanning engine with real-time reports, brand-new roles and permissions for large organizations, expanded Compliance Center with EAA framework (coming soon), and the trusted intelligent, automated and assisted integrated tooling for designers, developers, QA, and PM. The full package!

What’s more, we’re making it even easier and more affordable for teams and organizations to get started with the brand-new free Starter plan. Because we believe accessibility is a human right, and every company can make a huge difference by embedding accessibility across all parts of their business.

Let’s dive into the details!

Automated end-to-end monitoring

With more than 44,000 companies using Stark, we’ve had the opportunity to speak to thousands of executives, managers, and individual contributors in startups, SMBs as well as large enterprises. And what we’ve learned is that accessibility is becoming more and more of a non-negotiable quality requirement across the product development lifecycle. 

However, to meet their needs for velocity and efficiency, companies need a solution that can scale effectively across all parts of their workflow and integrates directly with their existing tool stack.

• Shared team projects for efficient accessibility collaboration

• Automatically monitor Figma files, code repos, public and private URLs, and CI/CD pipelines

• Real-time WCAG 2.2 reports and insights for violations, potential violations, and passed checks to find and remediate issues where they originate

• Integrated into ticketing system and project management tools for easy triage and planning

The Stark platform gives teams the real-time monitoring necessary to find accessibility issues where they originate, provide insights on how to optimize workflows, and remediate issues directly with intelligent tooling – saving up 100x the cost while accelerating the process by up to 10x.

Compliance Center as your central hub

Accessibility goes way beyond the product development lifecycle. In fact, building a proactive accessibility posture touches every single part of a business – from marketing and sales to HR and procurement, and everything in between. 

We’re learning from more and more legal departments and general counsel at companies that accessibility is becoming a mission critical compliance topic. Managing responsibilities, status updates, and evidence data in one central place is essential to ensure a company is always legally compliant with the latest regulations.

• Central hub to manage responsibilities and audit evidence

• Align all departments on accessibility compliance goals

• Supporting Stark Universal Accessibility Framework (SUAF) and W3C Accessibility Maturity Model framework to assess readiness and track progress toward compliance

• Support for European Accessibility Act (EAA) framework coming soon

Stark’s Compliance Center helps organizations to apply the same process and rigor used for privacy and security to accessibility compliance across departments. In the coming months, Compliance Center will also support a general framework for compliance with the European Accessibility Act (EAA) as well as country-specific EAA frameworks for individual member states, removing a lot of the guesswork on how to comply as the 2025 deadline approaches.

The best integrated tooling in the business

For hundreds of thousands of users, Stark’s integrated tooling in design, code, and QA has been a cornerstone of their daily accessibility workflow for years. We believe that giving product makers the intelligent tools and contextual education to make better, more inclusive product decisions is a powerful lever for meaningful change for your end users and business.

We’ll continue to build the gold-standard tools for designers and developers with the goal to boost your workflow through smart, assisted and automated tooling.

• Stark in Figma

• Stark in Github, Bitbucket, GitLab, Azure DevOps

• Stark in your automated CI/CD workflow (Cypress, Puppeteer, Playwright) 

• Stark in the browser

In the coming months, we’ll be releasing more updates to the Stark tooling as well as more expanded controls for administrators to set company-wide preferences for specific tools, parameters, and features to streamline workflows.

New pricing

Starting today, we’re making our pricing a lot more clear and scalable by introducing new plans that grow with the size, usage, and maturity of your organization. And for the first time ever, we’re introducing a free Starter plan for small teams that want to get started with accessibility monitoring.

In addition to our new free Starter plan, we’re offering 3 distinct platform plans: Launch, Grow, and Scale. Each starts with a flat price and includes a number of accounts for editors as well as viewers. Want more? It’s easy, you add as you grow! Editors have full access to all of the integrated tooling as well as projects, reports and insights. Whereas Viewers only have access to view reports and insights.

• Starter and Launch plans include support for Figma, code repos, and public URLs so that you can set up a full end-to-end accessibility workflow for your team – whether you’re starting from scratch or you’re switching over from any of the traditional solutions.

• Grow and Scale plans expand the supported assets to also include private URLs as well as integration into your existing CI/CD workflow and ticketing system.

• The Scale plan offers unlimited viewers, 365 days of report data storage and full enterprise customization from procurement to security.

To read more about the details on the new pricing and compare plans, head over to our brand-new pricing page, and don’t hesitate to contact us with any questions or to set up a demo.

For our existing customers on the now old legacy plans: nothing changes for now. However, if you’d like to switch over to a new plan and take full advantage of the scalability of the new pricing model, add editors or have unlimited viewers for your organization, we’ve got you covered as your account manager will reach out to you for a customized tour, and answer any questions.

Available today, go give it a try!

Now, we can’t wait for you and your team to get your hands on all these updates. So, if you’re as excited as we are to get started with a Stark platform plan, head over to our free trial and take it for a spin. 

We’d love to hear from you, so please share your thoughts and feedback at support@getstark.co, or join the conversations in our Stark Slack Community, on LinkedIn, and on Twitter.