My wife uses:
Fusion screenreader: speech to text, and magnification, for her computer.
A white cane (with training from Guide Dogs). When I'm guiding her I often hold her white cane so people realise she's vision impaired (they tend to be more helpful if they know).
Here, Vision Australia (used to be the Royal Victorian Institute for the Blind) has a library of ebooks for free (she listens to them on her iPad).