As where’s ‘Ol Vincent Price when Yuhs Need Him?
Presumably most of Y’all aren’t aware of what
Newsline is? Unless you’ve read Here upon No Fenders about the NFB’s Newsline for
The Blind Telephone Service that your Blind Word Butcherer’ uses on a Daily basis!
Newsline for The Blind is a Great service that
reads a multitude of National and International Newspapers, along with multiple
Magazines, utilizing a small choice of Computerized Speech voices. Since if you’re
Blind like your Humble No Fenders Scribe Tomaso is, then it’s pretty G-Damn’
Hard to read actual, printed text font, especially 8-size Font, Crikeys!
Thus one of the many choices I used to enjoy listening
to Daily, and specifically each morning was the ESPN Online Motorsports
Headlines section, until it was erroneously Scrambled by the IT boffins’ at
ESPN!
I have been using the service for nearly Twenty
years now, and it’s been a constant Struggle to keep the various Newspapers and
Magazines I look forward to working Correctly!
As I’m sure that the person at Newsline who
used to answer my emails on a regular basis has long since grown tired of my
constantly Badgering Him over what the latest item that’s Not working on the
system!
As I really Don’t know who’s Fault it is, other
than as Queen Danica once famously Bemoaned: “It’s Not My Fault!”
As the ESPN Online “Magazine?” Uhm News source
from Newsline Breaking News section just suddenly Quit working on Bastille Day’,
Y’all know Wayback on July 14th! And I sent in another customary email early the
next week, before the system added the Prompt saying They were Aware of the Problem
and trying to Restore Service.
As I can only Arse-sume, the NFB’s Newsline
service must have a very Small amount of Workers, since Nothing had happened to
rectify the issue causing the entire ESPN Online News source to Not work! As I
sent in a second email six weeks later noting Nothing Had Happened! Which Gee
Wally, I cannot understand why I Didn’t get a reply to this, go Fish, err
Figure, Eh?
So we passed the Two months threshold of the
ESPN Online Motorsports Headlines section Not being Functional just prior to my
Departing on my Glorious Pretty-boy Floyd 24 Dazes Holiday Wayback on September
19th, making me think that this Great source of Motorsports News Ain’t
ever coming back, Urgh!
Upon my return, the system now has a notice
stating that They’ve lost Access to this Publication and Are looking for a Strategy
to Restore It, Seriously? Like it’s Over three Gory Months now - Jokers!
As what I’ve learned over the years is that
these types of issues are typically caused by the News source’s provider changing
it’s Computer Coding and making it Not compatible with whatever antiquated
system Newsline utilizes!
But if Y’all cannot already Deduce, this is a
Crock of Shit! As why are the Blind and Visually Impaired Always getting
Screwed?
Another great magazine on Newsline I used to
look forward to, even if it was only offered Bi-monthly was the National Air and
Space Museum’s Air and Space magazine. Which Sadly, went to a Quarterly
publication for which Newsline lost Access to at the end of December, 2021, bummer!
Whilst another magazine selection that seems to
continuously go Off Kilter is the Car and Driver selection, as it went “Silent”
the entire month of September before being restored in October which now has August-September-October
All on the November 1st edition…
But Seriously? It was a Gory 109 Days as of Halloween! Which is nearly Half of Indy Cars yearly Off-season and ESPN and Newsline cannot figure out How to rectify this problem? Especially since last time I checked, Stick ‘N Ball Sports are pretty Damn Mainstream! So Come On whomever It’s Fault is! Fix the Bloody ESPN Online News service El Pronto!
