[il-talk] NFB Newsline on Amazon Alexa

Thu Dec 13 16:55:46 UTC 2018

Denise:.  I tried "Instructions".   said "This feature will be available in the future.

Patti:. I tried Skip and it also only offer advance of one article.   Tried "Skip 5".    I will email. them soon thanks.

Lewis Wood

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Yes you can skip. We saw it done at our national center. If you email
newsline for help, I am sure they can tell you how.

Patti S. Gregory-Chang Esq.
Treasurer
National Federation of the Blind of Illinois
773-307-6440
Pattischang at gmail.com

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Lewis,
Have you asked Alexa for instructions on how to work the app once you open
it?

 Denise R. Avant, President
National Federation of the Blind of Illinois
(773)-991-8050
Live the life you want.
For more information about NFBI,
go to www.nfbofillinois.org<http://www.nfbofillinois.org>.

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Saint Louis Post Dispatch works.   My only gripe is there is no way to skip
multiple articles or an entire section.   I plays it in alphabetical order.
Thus Section Business, Entertainment, etc....

I like the business, but want to skip Entertainment most of the time and
there are 23 articles I it is quite annoying to constantly say "Lexa Next
Article"..

Read "My Newspaper". is too annoying unless you configure it for only one
section.    Turns out for example it loads all articles in current edition
and past editions for that section in your My Newspaper.

  I tried "Android Central" by article 23 it was reading articles I have
read in the past already.    So no "Next Section".  I finally abandoned
after 53 articles.

I removed the magazine and put Obituaries and BND Political and NY Times
Editorials.   Forget it after 21 articles of obituaries going back to July I
gave up on my "Newspaper". altog

Lewis Wood

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Sent: Wednesday, December 12, 2018 3:38:49 PM
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This is so cool! thank you NFB for this. This will greatly help our
consumers for this. I just found out today that my Alexia can now read my
emails. I can also now create and delete my calenders event.

Lewis, let me know when you get the Belleville News Democrat going.

Thanks!
Daniel Hawkins
computersassociated at gmail.com

> On Dec 10, 2018, at 6:48 PM, Brian Sumner via IL-Talk
> <il-talk at nfbnet.org>
wrote:
>
> I don't have that yet but if and when i do i will try and see how it
works.
> Thank you for you for the information.
>
> On Mon, Dec 10, 2018 at 6:08 PM Lewis Wood via IL-Talk
> <il-talk at nfbnet.org < mailto:il-talk at nfbnet.org>>
> wrote:
>
>> Tried it earlier today.   I was able to read PC-World, but for some
reason
>> my local paper Belleville News Democrat (BND)  was not found.   I will
try
>> again.   Will be nice to read my paper from the bedside as well as during
>> my meals in the kitchen.  We
>>
>> Lewis Wood
>>
>> From: IL-Talk <il-talk-bounces at nfbnet.org> on behalf of Denise Avant
>> via IL-Talk <il-talk at nfbnet.org>
>> Sent: Tuesday, December 11, 2018 12:00:37 AM
>> To: 'NFB of Illinois Mailing List'
>> Cc: davant1958 at gmail.com; Illinois Association of Blind Students List
>> Subject: [il-talk] NFB Newsline on Amazon Alexa
>>
>> HI,
>>
>> I forgot to paste the information.
>>
>> Now you can access NFB-NEWSLINE by asking "Alexa open National
Federation."
>> Once you have logged in, say "Alexa ask National Federation to give
>> me instructions" to learn how to use it.
>>
>>
>>
>> Denise R. Avant, President
>>
>> National Federation of the Blind of Illinois
>>
>> (773)-991-8050
>>
>> Live the life you want.
>>
>> For more information about NFBI,
>>
>> go to
www.nfbofillinois.org<http://www.nfbofillinois.org<http://www.nfbofillinois<http://www.nfbofillinois.org<http://www.nfbofillinois.org<http://www.nfbofillinois>.
org< http://www.nfbofillinois.org>>.
>>
>>
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