Also called: Alternate Format Specialist, Accessible Textbook Producer
Turns textbooks, worksheets and tests into braille, audio, large print and screen-reader-friendly files for students with disabilities.
A blind college student needs her chemistry textbook by next week. You scan it, fix the text so a screen reader reads formulas correctly, describe each diagram in words, and send graphs to be printed as raised tactile images. Then you show a professor how to make his slides accessible from the start.
Approximate: anchored on Bureau of Labor Statistics data for a broader job group.
Bachelor's degree (4-year), about 4 years after high school. Bachelor's degree, often in education or communications, plus accessibility training.
Ways in: 4-year college, Certification, On-the-job training. Training cost: $15k – $60k.
Majors to look at: Education, Communications, Special Education, Library Science.
Growing faster than average. New federal accessibility rules for schools and colleges are raising demand.
Medium risk for 10 years. AI now converts text and drafts image descriptions; checking math, charts and what a student truly needs stays human.
Classes: Computer applications, English, Math.
Official data: O*NET occupation 25-9099.
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