Now that looks really interesting. 
We have a similar problem for a very elderly (2 months off 100) poorly-sighted realative who has a "conventional" CD player (with headphones) and several books on CD but just can't get to grips with it.
@HP, here's initial impressions...
Nice looking, and reasonably well built, except that the foil speaker cones are exposed. That may leave scope for a seriously blind person plunging a finger through a speaker cone, though it's a risk I'm content to live with. It doesn't come with headphones, though there's a socket for them, I'll be buying some this afternoon.
Sound quality for spoken recordings probably exceeds my expectations, though I've not tried it with music yet. Spoken tracks, which are the main reason I wanted it, sound fine, and plenty loud enough to be heard over the din of kettles and saucepans in my kitchen (I've just been making lunch).
The biggest drawback (which I knew before I bought it) is the only navigational control is pause/play, skip forward or back one complete track, and skip back to first track. That would annoy me, but probably won't worry the person I've bought it for. If you switch it off & on, it resumes at the start of the track it was playing.
Battery use would be limited as current draw is about 130mA, constant - regardless of play or pause. I suspect that translates to about 10 to 15 hours from AA cells so it would probably kill the batteries if accidentally left on overnight. But it does of course come with it's own AC adapter.
