No single accessible reader handles PDFs, webpages and EPUBs with TTS, sentence navigation, dictionary, annotation and cross-device resume

Summary

Students and knowledge workers describe having to assemble a reading workflow out of mismatched parts: a phone app (ReadEra) that has word meanings and notes but has no laptop equivalent; PDFs that are inaccessible to screen readers, with images and tables that break the flow; and no free reader that combines zoomable full screen, dark mode, text-to-speech with speed control, dictionary lookup, annotation/multi-colour highlighting, and save/history in one place. The result is that the exact documents people must read (papers, PDFs, Google Docs, EPUBs) each demand a different tool, and nothing carries position, highlights, or voice settings across them. Existing products are either per-format readers with no TTS, TTS tools with no annotation or persistence, or accessibility tools that choke on tables and images. Nothing offers one continuous, accessible listening-and-reading surface across formats and devices — which is precisely the gap this topic targets.