1. A device, comprising: a touch sensitive surface allowing user input; and an accessible user interface facilitating use of the touch sensitive surface by a visually impaired user by configuring an entire surface of the touch sensitive surface as a single control feature for receiving touch gestures, the touch gestures including at least one of one or more taps, one or more presses, one or more press-and-holds, and one or more swipes in any direction, the accessible user interface configured to: receive at the touch sensitive surface an automatic reading mode activation gesture, the automatic reading mode configured to: automatically and continuously aurally present textual content from a predetermined point with a selected voice font, volume, and rate; disregard all contacts on the touch sensitive surface other than touch gestures received anywhere on the touch sensitive surface to transition out of the automatic reading mode, and touch gestures received anywhere on the touch sensitive surface to adjust at least one of reading rate, scroll by sentence, scroll by page, and scroll by chapter; and create a virtual bookmark by the automatic reading mode on a currently displayed page if a gesture is performed to scroll to another chapter, and the currently displayed page is not at the beginning of a chapter, wherein the virtual bookmark prompts an additional stop on the corresponding bookmarked page in response to a subsequent chapter scrolling gesture to proceed over the bookmarked page; and receive at the touch sensitive surface a manual reading mode activation gesture, the manual reading mode configured to perform an action including at least one of: aurally present textual content at a current read point or that is selected, navigate menu options, share content, select content, add notes to content, adjust reading rate, adjust voice font, and adjust volume in response to the one or more corresponding touch gestures received anywhere on the touch sensitive surface; and wherein the accessible user interface is configured to transition between the automatic reading mode and the manual reading mode in response to a transition gesture received anywhere on the touch sensitive surface.
1. A device, comprising: a touch sensitive surface allowing user input; and an accessible user interface facilitating use of the touch sensitive surface by a visually impaired user by configuring an entire surface of the touch sensitive surface as a single control feature for receiving touch gestures, the touch gestures including at least one of one or more taps, one or more presses, one or more press-and-holds, and one or more swipes in any direction, the accessible user interface configured to: receive at the touch sensitive surface an automatic reading mode activation gesture, the automatic reading mode configured to: automatically and continuously aurally present textual content from a predetermined point with a selected voice font, volume, and rate; disregard all contacts on the touch sensitive surface other than touch gestures received anywhere on the touch sensitive surface to transition out of the automatic reading mode, and touch gestures received anywhere on the touch sensitive surface to adjust at least one of reading rate, scroll by sentence, scroll by page, and scroll by chapter; and create a virtual bookmark by the automatic reading mode on a currently displayed page if a gesture is performed to scroll to another chapter, and the currently displayed page is not at the beginning of a chapter, wherein the virtual bookmark prompts an additional stop on the corresponding bookmarked page in response to a subsequent chapter scrolling gesture to proceed over the bookmarked page; and receive at the touch sensitive surface a manual reading mode activation gesture, the manual reading mode configured to perform an action including at least one of: aurally present textual content at a current read point or that is selected, navigate menu options, share content, select content, add notes to content, adjust reading rate, adjust voice font, and adjust volume in response to the one or more corresponding touch gestures received anywhere on the touch sensitive surface; and wherein the accessible user interface is configured to transition between the automatic reading mode and the manual reading mode in response to a transition gesture received anywhere on the touch sensitive surface. 7. The device of claim 1 wherein the manual reading mode is further configured to aurally present selected textual content in response to a double-tap gesture.