1st Place | Apps for Your Life
Second Voice
A zero-training AI communication aid that turns unclear speech from people with dysarthria into clear, confirmable sentences using GPT-5.6, then speaks them aloud.
accessibilityvoice
Ravitez Dondeti
AI lab hackathons, 2025 to now
What got built, and what won.
Every submission from hackathons run by Anthropic, OpenAI, Google, Meta and the other big labs, with the winners marked and the code linked.
- projects
- 31,980
- hackathons
- 93
- award winners
- 585
- inferred from GitHub
- 433
1st Place
Shiprail
Create a speech coach based on phoneme-level dysfluency detection.
accessibilityvoice
ElevenLabs Challenge: Second Place
ember
50M people pay $15K for robotic AAC devices. Ember uses Gemini to interpret unclear speech and ElevenLabs for natural voice responses. "wan coff hot" → "I want hot coffee"
accessibilityvoicehealth
Manoj Kumar
Grafana Labs - 2nd Place
Raccord - Accessible Experience Reliability for live media.
Raccord certifies, monitors, diagnoses, repairs and proves the accessibility of a live media experience.
accessibilityagents
Replit - 2nd Place
FrameKind
An accessibility review agent for film editors. Find missing sound captions, rushed dialogue and timing errors, review each proposed repair against the picture, then export a better caption file.
accessibilityvision
Third Place
Netra: Empowering the Visually Impaired
Restoring independence through AI. Netra provides the visually impaired with a high-speed vision system that reads text, recognizes faces, and describes surroundings in real-time.
accessibilityvision
Amita Mantri
3rd Place
Wayfinder
Wayfinder helps patients and visitors find their way around hospitals using their phone camera.
accessibilityvision
Will Halfpenny, Celso Milne, Souradip Mookerjee
3rd Overall
Agentic Automation on iOS
Speak any task; Claude sees your iPhone, controls any app, and narrates every step, giving blind and low-vision users full, eyes-free control of iOS.
accessibilityagentsvoice
Bryan Ramirez-Gonzalez, Victoria Rojas, Zachary Chung
3rd Place
Pocket Whisper
Have you ever stuttered or forgotten a word mid-sentence?
accessibilityvoice
Warren Feng, Ayush Kumar, Nicolas Capetillo
Most Helpful - Chrome Extension
Nutshell: Hands-Free Web Access for Everyone
Empowers users with motor disabilities to browse the web completely hands-free using just their head and mouth movements, powered by Chrome's private, on-device AI.
accessibilityvision
Han Wei Tan
Winners
SixthSense: Haptic Vision for the Blind
An affordable wearable that turns a phone's camera into directional belt buzzes, guiding blind and low-vision users around obstacles fully on-device with no internet, at a fraction of the cost of the smart canes and glasses people are priced out of.
accessibilityvisionrobotics/hardware
sixthsense
Most Helpful - Web Application
AAC Board AI
AAC Board AI is a local-first communication board for people who cannot rely on speech. It works with or without AI, using Chrome’s on-device models to proofread, rephrase, and translate privately.
accessibilityvoice
Shay Cojocaru
Regional Prize: Latin America
NeroFashion
Bringing online shopping closer to reality with AI.
visionaccessibility
Giovanna Moeller, Gabriel Valentim, Samuel Cavalcanti +1
Apple Mac Mini M4 (per team member)
unstuck.
get your users back on track!
accessibilityvoiceagents
Krish Mehta, Krish Shah, Freeman Jiang
Honorable Mention
EduAdapt
Chrome extension that uses on-device Gemini Nano to turn any web page into a neurodivergent-friendly reading experience tailored for ADHD and Dyslexia students in seconds.
educationaccessibility
Davide Iotti
WebMCP Challenge Winners
MASIL — Reconnecting Korean Elders to Creative Life
Korean elders living alone lose access to creative spaces. Only the web remains; its UI fails them. WebMCP turns Agent access into human access—restoring creative life and expanding what’s possible.
accessibilityculture/heritage
Sangjoon Son
Runner-up
EsencIA
EsencIA turns WhatsApp into an AI companion that helps older adults stay connected, keep learning through everyday technology, and preserve family stories in a Living Biography—powered by Gemini.
accessibilityvoice
Esencia AI, Karen Hernández, Ivonne Guerrero
Runner-up
Ability Bazaar: Talent with Disabilities
Ability Bazaar leverages Gemini to build a more inclusive internet. We turn customer needs into accessible websites & apps, creating sustainable, paid digital jobs for the disability community.
accessibilityagents
Ram Raju, Harish Hariharan, ARUNKUMAR K +4
Economic Empowerment & Education Track
AdaptIQ
Your brain has a learning style. AdaptIQ finally listens to it.
accessibilityeducationvision
Mayukha Ajeesh Ramsha Nath, Rishab Mohandoss, Sneh Bhatt +1
Honorable Mention: Most Creative Use of Claude
Guardian
Guardian watches every page your grandparent visits, speaks up about scams, and walks them through tasks one step at a time - no typing required.
accessibilitysecurityagents
Boris Hong Pak Lo, Jay Thapar
Claude Merch
Plaude-Code
A macOS menu bar app that turns a PlayStation controller into keyboard shortcuts and snippets especially for Ghostty and Claude Code, so you can drive your terminal from the couch without a keyboard.
accessibilitydev tools
UMD Staff Favorite Pick
TerpAccess
Accessible Routes in Accessible Style
accessibility
Jai R., hi-scp Patibandla, Richa Gupta
Best Hybrid AI Application - Chrome Extension
Mentelo - An Interactive Chrome Extension You Can Talk To
Struggling with confusing websites or complicated tax forms? Call Mindy! She offers instant on-page tech support to answer your questions, along with 10 other essential everyday features.
accessibilityvoice
Honorable Mention
Helix AI
Free AI Sidebar Chatbot in any site to prompt, talk to your site, attach images comes with built-in browser AI.
accessibilityproductivity
Shahul Hammeed, Salman K A A, Shalini Munusami +1
Best Local Agent | Sponsored by NVIDIA+1
Memory Palace
An offline-first AI companion that helps those with memory loss reconnect with their memories and their families.
healthaccessibility
20 Category Winners
ReliefMap
ReliefMap is a mobile-first app that helps disaster victims quickly find nearby resources like shelter, food, medical aid, and more—all through an interactive map.
accessibilityhealth
Jim Rettew
Finalist
Autonomous Infrastructure Auditor
1 in 4 Americans lives with a disability, yet most cities have no systematic way to audit pedestrian infrastructure for ADA compliance at scale.
accessibilityvisionagents
Kushaan Naskar
Finalist
YBIGTA2026
프로젝트 Elder Guard는 기존의 불안정한 에이전트 시스템 위에 제어 레이어와 안전 검토 계층을 추가해, 노인도 쉽게 사용할 수 있는 < 사기 방지 디지털 안전 에이전트 > 를 만드는 것을 목표로 합니다.
securityaccessibilityagents
Heechan Yun, Sungwoo Kang
Finalist
SaralPhone
My grandfather recently walked 2km to a hospital because he couldn't book a cab—the ads and clutter on the Ola app made him feel helpless.
accessibilityvoiceagents
Harpinder Singh, Umang Malik