[Ohio-Talk] an update on NFB newsline.

[Barbara Pierce]

I can say that Victor Reader Stream 3 is not downloading either the New York Times or the Washington post. I am very frustrated at not hearing from Scott White about this situation. I am very grateful to Shane for reporting on what he can find out.
Barbara
Barbara Pierce (she, her, hers)
President Emerita
National Federation of the Blind of Ohio
Barbara.pierce9366 at gmail.com
440-774-8077
 

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> On Jul 17, 2024, at 9:50 PM, Shane Popplestone via Ohio-Talk <ohio-talk at nfbnet.org> wrote:
> 
> Firstly, to knew members, my name is Shane Popplestone, one of the state NFB news line coordinators.
> Please distribute the following announcement as appropriate.
> I’m writing this on my own, after checking services manually myself.
> I’ll be checking in with newsline myself in the morning to see where services fully stand and I’ll provide an update then.
> You may have noticed over the past week or so that parts of newsline were offline, and not functioning as expected.
> On personally checking, the following services seem to be working as of 9:30 PM eastern time, on July 17,, 2024.
> The mobile app seems to be back online.
> The system responsible for providing newsline to smart displays such as the mantus seems to be functioning.
> The after hours support indicates that the alexa service is still offline as of July 15, 2024, it also indicated that sending of braille files to NLS e-readers, etc. was also not functioning but at least my mantus was able to retrieve newsline without a problem so their could be that nobodies updated the status recording.
> I do not have my victor stream III connected yet, So I am unable to test this interaction.
> I do note that if you access newsline from nfbnewsline.net you will be unable to access this website right now as it seems to still be completely down.
> With nfbnewsline.net being down still, this means I will be unable to retrieve, or modify NFB of Ohio profiles, or add NFB of Ohio members to the system if you need to be added.
> I’ll write tomorrow with more when I know it.
> Shane Popplestone
> spopplestone.nfb at gmail.com <mailto:spopplestone.nfb at gmail.com>s
> 234-716-2208
> You can live the life you want!
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