I've recently been really enjoying a tool Martin came back from Thailand with: AppWriter Cloud. One of his fellow vendors at the conference there was touting it and was kind enough to give me a free login for it. It's an add-on to the Chrome browser that reads web pages aloud - and it can read any web pages, including the pages within my Google Drive, meaning I can use it to read pdfs and other documents to me as well so long as I upload them there first.
It's a bit temperamental, and using it requires me to have a Windows virtual machine running as it doesn't work in Chromium, but I'm still delighted with it. After years of failing to get Orca* to work for me, something that works most of the time is fantastic :-) I find reading pretty hard work, even on a screen where I don't have to deal with holding the weight of a book, but this has suddenly made it a lot easier! Yay!!
* the Linux version of JAWS - the text to speech programme blind people generally use
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