I don't believe for a minute that the accessibility staff at Amazon has either 
forgotten or stopped caring about Linux accessibility. Realistically though, it 
is possible that they have stopped worrying about the very small number of 
people who still use text-based browsers and expect them to work for shopping, 
banking and other modern internet tasks. The thing is Linux accessibility in 
2019 != lynx/links/elinks accessibility. In fact, this hasn't been the case 
since about 2008 or so
.
Unfortunately, text-based browsers have not kept up with the rest of the 
internet, and can't be expected to work well for most websites without a major 
overhaul, especially since they don't even support the latest HTML5 standards, 
nor do they support accessibility standards that have been in place for years. 
Even w3m doesn't fully support the w3c's own standards.

Yes, I can see why some people may want these light-weight and fast browsers to 
work with Amazon, and yes, they should be made aware of the problems that 
people are having. But to say that Amazon doesn't care about Linux 
accessibility because their site doesn't work with a text-based browser is at 
best a gross exageration, and is at worst a grave disservice to those of us who 
use Linux and a screen reader at the same time.
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