1. My comment regarding Linux is based on direct communications with
Amazon staff, who have confessed not to have heard of it,and who have
no direct contact with their so called
accessibility team when problems arise.
2. them properly compiled elinks and links function with java script.
3. Access is tied to interaction which is why even later editions of lynx
can manage some scripting, submit buttons for example.
4. since adaptive technology is often a substitution for the persons eyes,
hands, brain, and the like, what gives you the right to state that
technology choices are not tied to physical mandates? How does your stance
differ from those who claim that access need not exist at all, or that
all those sharing a label are the same?
5. the names of access or other individuals at amazon confirming your
assumption here? the legal stance is that if a site serves the public,
an individual can expect equal public access...which is why alternative
doors are to exist in the first place.
How do you know what low graphics can or cannot do if you do not follow
their development? This is about keyboard response which exists in
graphical browsers like elinks and links.
On Fri, 23 Aug 2019, Linux for blind general discussion wrote:
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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