AppleVis announces 2025 Golden Apple Awards
AppleVis, a web site and community that follows Apple from the perspective of blind and low-vision users, announced its annual Golden Apple Awards, recognizing apps, games and developers for their contributions to the industry:
Since their launch in 2012, the AppleVis Golden Apple Awards have afforded blind, deafblind, and low vision users of Apple products an opportunity to recognize and acknowledge the hard work and dedication which developers have put into making and maintaining great and accessible applications over the given year.
The awards were voted on by AppleVis community members, based on a slate of nominees chosen by a committee of outside experts and commentators, including yours truly.
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The Best App award went to PiccyBot, which uses AI to provide audio descriptions of photos and videos, from Sparkling Apps.
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Best Game honors are shared by Core Quest and Dungeons, both part of the Adventure to Fate series from TouchMint.
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PiccyBot creator Sparkling Apps also won Developer of the Year.
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The David Goodwin award, which honors excellence and commitment to accessibility in app development, and is named for AppleVis’ founder, went to Aira. The company’s Aira Explorer is a pioneer and both AI-based and human-provided description services for people with visual impairments. TouchMint and Weather Gods Ltd. earned honorable mention.