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IBM Home Page Reader

1998 – 2005 Discontinued
42

IBM's talking browser for blind users, based on Chieko Asakawa's work, which read the HTML structure directly instead of the screen.

Facts

Developer
IBM
Website
web.archive.org
Engine
Trident
Platforms
Windows
Details
Versions 1–2: relied on Netscape Navigator to fetch the HTML; version 3.0 and later: require Internet Explorer
Popularity
42/100 — Estimate: visually impaired users

Sources

  1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_Home_Page_Reader
  2. https://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/w3c-wai-ig/2001JulSep/0092.html
  3. https://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/w3c-wai-ua/1999JulSep/0044.html