I found
this thread on Hacker News about the changes, including this:
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gnicholas 1 day ago | prev | next [–]
Amazon also changed the way their Kindle Cloud Reader (the Kindle web app) works so that it now displays an image of text instead of HTML text. This appears to have been done for anti-piracy reasons, but it has the knock-on effect of breaking accessibility browser plugins that people with disabilities rely on to make Kindle books accessible. In case anyone is not aware, image-of-text is considered a newbie mistake from an accessibility perspective, so it's odd for Amazon to take this step backward.
Amazon rolled out this update over a year ago, and my startup still gets emails from people who are upset that they can no longer read books they purchased with the BeeLine Reader plugin, as they expected they would when they bought the books.
There's nothing we can do to get Amazon to fix this, but we are now launching partnerships with other ebook platforms that are more accessibility-friendly.
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May Amazon rot.