What Hidden Text?
Here, “hidden text” refers to a text file combined by an application with another object (image, video etc.) in order to add functionality to that object: several web applications offer this text to the reader together with the object it enhances – DotSUB offers the transcript of video captions, for instance: Screenshot from “Phishing Scams in Plain English” by Lee LeFever [1]. But in other applications, unfortunately, you get only the enhanced object, but the text enhancing it remains hidden even though it would grant access to content for people with disabilities that prevent them from using the object and would simplify enormously research and quotations for everybody. Following are three examples of object-enhancing applications using text but keeping it hidden: Multilingual Captioning of YouTube and Google Videos Google offers the possibility to caption a video by uploading one or several text files with their timed transcriptions. See the YouTube example below. YouTube video capt
