IBM Home Page Reader

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.

Hpr was first introduced in 1998 for the Windows 95 Operating System. The major innovation of Hpr was that it directly used the HTML content of the web page to build its model of the content, allowing it to more flexibly handle interactions important for the Web, such as navigating content that scrolled off of the screen, navigating between different frames, and interacting with form fields. The common way that screen readers attempted to work at the time was by directly "reading the screen."

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.

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on the Hpr mailing list that IBM does not have plans for any further updates of HPR and the software was subsequently withdrawn from sale by IBM in December 2006.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

The program also had a peer-support mailing list.