IBM Home Page Reader

Home Page Reader

Home Page Reader 3.0 rendering Wikipedia.
Developer(s) IBM Special System Needs (SNS)
Stable release
3.04[1] / 2005 (2005)
Development status Discontinued
Operating system Windows 95/98/NT
Platform Windows
Available in English, French, German, Italian, Japanese, and Spanish[2]
Type Screen Reader
Website Homepage (Archive.org)

Home Page Reader (Hpr) was a computer program, a self-voicing web browser designed for people who are blind. It was developed by IBM from the work of Chieko Asakawa at IBM Japan.

The screen reader met World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) HTML 4.01 specifications, Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 1.0 and User Agent Accessibility Guidelines 1.0.[3]

In 2006, it was announced on the Hpr mailing list that IBM does not have plans for any further updates of HPR and the software was subsequently withdrawn from sale by IBM in December 2006.[4] IBM has given code to be used as a Firefox extension.

It has been superseded by IBM Easy Web Browsing.

The program also had a peer-support mailing list.[5][note 1]

Criticism

In summer 2002 a non-scientific study concluded that Hpr did not make any distinction between the built-in keyboard shortcuts for entering different modes and the access keys available on websites. The research claimed that Hprs would do better to use links mode to cycle through a list.[6]

System requirements

Hardware Requirements

Hpr had the following hardware requirements:[7]

Software Requirements

Hpr had the following software requirements:[7]

References

Notes
  1. Its archives were available at http://www.talklist.com/forms/ibm-hpr
References
  1. "Home Page Reader Version 3 : Spectronics - Inclusive Learning Technologies". Archived from the original on July 29, 2010. Retrieved 10 August 2010.
  2. "IBM relaunch browser for the blind". evolt.org. Retrieved 10 August 2010.
  3. "IBM Home Page Reader 3.04". IBM. 2007. Retrieved 10 August 2010.
  4. faulkner, steve (November 7, 2006). "IBM Home Page Reader is Dead". AOL Ability. Archived from the original on 7 January 2007. Retrieved 10 August 2010.
  5. "BLIST: The Comprehensive Index of Blindness-Related Emailing Lists". June 20, 2002. Retrieved 10 August 2010.
  6. "Using Accesskeys - Is it worth it?". wats.ca. October 2006. Retrieved 7 January 2011.
  7. 1 2 "IBM Home Page Reader". Retrieved 10 August 2010.
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