CTO and co-founder @getstarkco. You’ll find me on a motorcycle or in front of a screen. Dog lover. Movie buff. Always making things.
Lincoln, NE
Joined June 2010
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Michael Fouquet retweeted
Accessible playgrounds are the best.
Because accessibility helps everyone. When you design something accessibly, you simultaneously create solutions for all sorts of use cases.
It's called the curb-cut effect. Let's dive in! 👇
@getstarkco
Michael Fouquet retweeted
🚀 Today we're thrilled to launch Stark’s Compliance Center—the central place to manage your company’s entire accessibility posture transparently, efficiently, and evidence-backed.
Accessibility? Meet Compliance raising the bar for building inclusively. getstark.co/blog/introducing…
ALT In the background the UI of Stark’s Compliance Center showing a number of controls for accessibility compliance grouped in section like “Policy and Governance” or “People and Culture”. Most of the controls shown are completed. On top, in the foreground two floating cards showing a completion score of 93% and the resulting maturity level 5 “Leader”.
Michael Fouquet retweeted
Tech! Come join me + the @getstarkco team for Global Accessibility Awareness Day to learn from Matthew Bennett and @meganegginclegg on a topic largely ignored in software — sound.
🗓️May 17 @ 12:30pm ET
👋🏼 ASL Interpreter
🔡 Zoom with CC
meetup.com/getstarkco/events… #gaad2023
ALT Graphic design for Stark's Global Accessibility Awareness event "Making Waves: Sound design in modern day software". Blue text on a bone colored background with various illustrated chat bubbles in yellow, blue, purple, and teal.
Michael Fouquet retweeted
This week we made the @FastCompany list of World Changing Ideas! ✨
So honored to join big names on the list: @NBCUniversal, @UNICEF, @HP, @salesforce, @nvidia, @Nike, @LOrealGroupe, @PepsiCo, and more.
getstark.co/blog/stark-named…
Michael Fouquet retweeted
🌟 Today, we're introducing five new simulations to Stark’s Vision Simulator: Yellowing, Loss of Contrast, Ghosting, Bright Light + Tunnel Vision.
Alt: Cursor selecting options in the Vision Simulator with sliding imagery cards displaying changes.
👉 getstark.co/blog/introducing…
Michael Fouquet retweeted
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! getstark.co/2022-accessibili…
Michael Fouquet retweeted
Mind blown. This time last year we had just over 3,000 companies using @getstarkco.
There are now over 17,000 companies using Stark.
Michael Fouquet retweeted
📣 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... getstark.co/blog/contrast-ch…
Michael Fouquet retweeted
👏🏼 Search interest in the US for “accessibility” is at an all time high—up over 40% since beginning of the year.
ALT Google Trend graph showing a light blue trend line for the term "accessibility". The graph shows the phrase at an all time high — with it being up 40% since the beginning of the year.
Michael Fouquet retweeted
Engineers, learn how we used SwiftUI to ensure Stark for Mac was accessible from the start.
getstark.co/blog/accessible-…
Michael Fouquet retweeted
Landmarks? ✅ Consider them defined, documented, and done in record time.
🚨 Don't know what a landmark even is?
😏 We got you. Hit the about button in the sidebar and learn all you need to get started!
Try Stark for Mac 👉 apps.apple.com/us/app/stark-…
💜 @getstarkco
Michael Fouquet retweeted
Huge huge huge product launch from Stark today - like a CI/CD for design accessibility, turning a traditionally sticky process from months of pain to minutes of ease 🎉 – at San Francisco, CA
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! 👉 apps.apple.com/us/app/stark-…
Michael Fouquet retweeted
It's here! 🚀 Stark for Mac is gorgeous, free, and LIVE in the Mac app store. THIS is what the future of accessibility in product design and development looks like, my friends.
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! 👉 apps.apple.com/us/app/stark-…
Michael Fouquet retweeted
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! 👉 apps.apple.com/us/app/stark-…
Michael Fouquet retweeted
When @_fookay and I hacked together v1 of Stark–which we call version Negative 500, we had no idea how far we'd take it.
And today, we announced the biggest changes, improvements, and additions since the start. 3x the tooling, covering 90% of browser usage on desktop. 🤩
Michael Fouquet retweeted
My portfolio has some accessibility issues 🙈...
So using @getstarkco's browser extension I found a specific issue, used Smart Suggestions to find a fix, and pushed the changes live! Check it out!
Michael Fouquet retweeted
Looking for strategies to develop more accessible software?
🛠 Mix and match accessibility tools
🌎 Learn from localized accessibility legislation
🔍 Uncover grey areas of standalone frameworks via user testing
Read more on these from our CTO @_fookay! hbr.org/2022/06/3-strategies…
Michael Fouquet retweeted
Who knew that a two-party duopoly would be a major cause of the apocalypse?
US Supreme Court curbs government's power to limit greenhouse gas emissions in a setback for President Biden's climate plans
bbc.in/3NsTai9
Michael Fouquet retweeted
brainstorming twitter growth hacking strategies at @getstarkco with @_fookay
ALT Two slack messages. The first message is from me and says: "in the words of esteemed First Lady Michelle Obama… when they go low. follow them." The second message is from Michael Fouquet and says "its the only way ill ever get anymore followers"