Comics you can hear
A comic is a wall of small print inside small pictures, which is a hard thing to hand to someone who cannot comfortably see either. This reader takes the same issue and performs it: every line voiced by a full cast, drawn sound effects that really sound, and a score under the scene. You can follow the whole story with your eyes shut.
One panel at a time, filling the screen
Instead of a full page shrunk to fit your display, the reader crops to a single panel and blows it up edge to edge, then moves to the next one on its own as the scene plays. For a low-vision reader that is magnification you do not have to drive: no pinching, no hunting for the next balloon, no losing your place halfway down a page.
Built to be navigated without a mouse
The library, the store, the menus and the reader controls all work from the keyboard and report themselves to a screen reader. Inside a comic, turning a panel announces your position and nothing else, such as page 3, panel 5 of 40. The panel's own words are there too, in a hidden landmark named “Panel text”: the description, the dialogue line by line, and the drawn sound lettering, for your screen reader's virtual cursor or a braille display. Nothing in it is ever announced by itself, so it cannot talk over the performance. Find it in the rotor's landmark list in VoiceOver, or by heading navigation in TalkBack.
Panel descriptions, when you want the art too
Voices carry the dialogue, but a comic says a great deal in pictures that nobody speaks aloud. Panel descriptions add a short spoken account of what each panel shows, played just before the lines in it, in the narrator's voice. Turn them on for an issue and the art comes through as well. They can also be read as on-screen text instead, for anyone who wants the words without the extra audio.
What this does not do yet
Nobody here has read the “Panel text” landmark on physical braille hardware. It is written for a braille display and it reads correctly through VoiceOver's on-screen braille panel and through TalkBack, but until someone has put it on a real display we are not going to claim it. Panel descriptions are a per-issue addition rather than something every title in the catalog already carries, so an issue without them has no description line in that landmark. Both are things we would rather state plainly here than have you discover after signing up.
Straight answers
Can I read comics here if I cannot see the page well?
Yes, and it is the whole point of the reader. Every line of every comic is voiced by a full cast, so you can listen rather than read. The reader also shows one panel at a time, blown up to fill your screen, instead of a whole page shrunk to fit it. Both of those work on every title in the library, with nothing to switch on.
Does it work with VoiceOver, TalkBack or NVDA?
The library, the store, the menus and the reader controls are all keyboard and screen reader navigable. Inside a comic your screen reader announces your position, such as page 3, panel 5 of 40, and the panel's words wait in a hidden landmark named “Panel text” that is never announced by itself, so you can read the description, the dialogue and the drawn lettering without anything talking over the narration. VoiceOver reaches it from the rotor's landmark list; TalkBack by heading navigation.
What are panel descriptions?
A short spoken account of what a panel actually shows, played just before that panel's dialogue, so the art reaches you and not only the words. You can add them to an issue and have them read aloud in the narrator's voice, or shown as text on screen. They are something you turn on per issue rather than something every title already carries.
Which comics can I listen to?
Every issue on the streaming shelf is fully voiced, start to finish, and so is anything you bring to your own shelf and have voiced. Panel descriptions are the per-issue addition on top of that, so turn them on for the issues where you want the art described too.
Is there braille support?
Yes, with one limit we would rather state than bury. Every panel puts its words in a hidden landmark named “Panel text”: the description, the dialogue line by line, and the drawn sound lettering, sitting there for a braille display or a screen reader's virtual cursor to read at your own pace. Nothing in it is ever announced by itself, so it never talks over the performance. Reach it from the rotor's landmark list in VoiceOver, or by heading navigation in TalkBack. We have read it through VoiceOver's on-screen braille panel and through TalkBack, never on physical braille hardware, so that is the part we will not claim. It also carries only what an issue already has, so an issue you have not added panel descriptions to has no description line in it.
Does listening cost anything?
No. Reading and listening never cost anything once an issue is on your shelf, and every account gets 500 MB of hosting free, about 20 issues, with no card. Panel descriptions are priced per issue and the price is shown before you buy.