AppleVis Extra 105: Karthik Kannan from Envision on winning the inaugural David Goodwin award and their upcoming Ally app

In this edition of the AppleVis Extra, David Nason speaks to Karthik Kannan, co-founder of Envision Technologies, winner of the inaugural AppleVis David Goodwin Award. This award recognises developers who have excelled in providing great apps and experiences for the blind and low vision community over a sustained period of time. They discuss the background of the company, key milestones, and the exciting Ally app which is due to launch soon.

Transcript

Disclaimer: This transcript was generated by Aiko, an AI-powered transcription app. It is not edited or formatted, and it may not accurately capture the speakers’ names, voices, or content.

Hello there and welcome to another episode of the AppleVis this extra podcast this is episode one hundred and five my name is david nason.

Today we are talking about the AppleVis end of twenty twenty four awards again but this is a particular special one today because it's the inaugural david goodwin award david as you most likely know.

Founded AppleVisway back in twenty ten and after fourteen years of real dedication he stepped away in the middle of last year.

Thankfully we have been able to go on and it's really fitting that this award in particular has been named in david's honor.

The david goodwin award rewards a developer who has shown a lasting and enduring dedication to the community with significant apps and really made an impact and they need to have been.

Active with an at least one app for over three years and our winner has been many more years than that and so it's a really special awards and we're delighted to have started up this year and really excited to talk to the winner.

Today before I get into that conversation I will give a quick overview of the nominees we had a lot of nominees for this award and which is a great sign in of itself really.

Nineteen nominated on the panel so let us have a quick run through just to get that acknowledgement to those nominees we had a sharp LLC who make king of dragon pass.

We had american printing house for the blind to make good maps at doors agile tortoise who make drafts era tech corporation who make era explorer cash reader sro who make that cash reader app dolphin computer access limited to of course make dolphin easy reader.

Envision technologies bv who make the envision app flexi bits incorporated who make the fantastical calendar app junew quang who makes.

Mona for mastodon and also spring for twitter canoe suit who makes the leer rss feeder app library of congress who make bird mobile.

MIP soft who makes the blind square up national federation the blind to make nfp newsline oreo gomez makes round logic and accessible hangman accessible twenty forty eight and many more great games that we enjoy.

Sneaky crab incorporated who make time crest twisted wave limited to make the twisted weight audio app.

Ulysses gmbh to make the ulysses writing app and weather god's LLC who make of course the weather gods weather app a very popular app over the years as well.

And finally would you juice limited to make hockey side and fright recording apps so big list congratulations to everybody who was nominated it's.

Great to see so many developers who have shown that long term dedication to making great apps for our community.

So the runners up…