Note
This post was originally posted by James N. Shimabukuro on Jannuary 22, 2009, in the Innovate blog, which has since disappeared: see the Internet Archive version saved on March 9, 2009. It was then reposted automatically on the etcjournal.com blog, when the content of the Innovate blog was transfered to it. I am reposting it as it was, except that James N. Shimabukuro’s bolded titles are replaced by H4 title styles and the broken pictures have been removed or replaced
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By Claude Almansi
Staff Writer
Thanks to:
- Marie-Jeanne Escure, of Le Temps, for having kindly answered questions about copyright and accessibility issues in the archives of the Journal de Genève.
- Gabriele Ghirlanda, of Unitas, for having tested the archives of the Journal de Genève with a screen reader.
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:
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