[NFB-Lions] FW: [Leasey] OT, Victor Reader Stream Petition

[Jennifer Gass]

Thanks Robert, I had pasted it all together, too but every time I go to the link it says “no letter found“. Maybe it’s because I’m using Safari? I will try with another browser later, thanks for the help.
Jennifer

> On Jan 29, 2023, at 6:26 PM, Robert Jaquiss via NFB-Lions <nfb-lions at nfbnet.org> wrote:
> 
> Hello Lions:
> 
>     The link to the letter is broken up over three lines. I used Notepad to
> put it together. The link then worked. Hopefully the following link will
> work.
> https://openletter.earth/to-amazons-audiblecom-division-please-reinstate-sup
> port-for-humanwares-popular-victor-reader-stream-player-for-the-blind-and-lo
> w-vision-community-c26fcf78
> 
> Note, the link starts with http and ends with the numerals 78.
> Hope this helps.
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Robert
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: NFB-Lions <nfb-lions-bounces at nfbnet.org> On Behalf Of Milton via
> NFB-Lions
> Sent: Sunday, January 29, 2023 1:29 PM
> To: 'NFB and Lions' <nfb-lions at nfbnet.org>
> Cc: Milton <mota1252 at gmail.com>; 'North Dakota Talk Discussion List'
> <nd-talk at nfbnet.org>
> Subject: [NFB-Lions] FW: [Leasey] OT, Victor Reader Stream Petition
> 
> Please consider signing this petition if you haven't done so already. Also
> spread this to the blind community as widely as possible as it is going to
> need a lot of signatures.
> 
> 
> 
> Forgive me for sharing this to the list, but this is a subject I am
> passionate about and is very important to us.
> 
> 
> 
> For some time now, it has become more difficult to link a Humanware Victor
> Reader Stream product with the Audible book service via its Audible Sync
> application. This means that it is not possible for those people to use the
> Stream with the Audible book service.
> 
> 
> 
> Audible is one of the primary methods these days for listening to audio
> books and this is undoubtedly the device on which many people choose to hear
> them.
> 
> 
> 
> As a company, we often recommend that people use the Victor Reader Stream.
> As of this moment, anyone who wishes to link such a device to Audible cannot
> do so and certainly the new upcoming version 3, to be released in February,
> will not be supported.
> 
> 
> 
> I urge you please if you have a moment to sign an accessible online petition
> to try to persuade Amazon and Audible to work with Humanware so as to ensure
> this service is reinstated. Even if you are not a Stream user, I would be
> grateful please for a minute of your time so that those of us who use
> Streams on a daily basis have a chance of protecting our listening to
> Audible books in the future.
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> https://openletter.earth/to-amazons-audiblecom-division-please-reinstate-sup
> port-for-humanwares-popular-victor-reader-stream-player-for-the-blind-and-lo
> w-vision-community-c26fcf78
> 
> 
> 
> Thank you for reading.
> 
> 
> 
> Brian Hartgen
> 
> Hartgen Consultancy.
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