Most of the work involves reading college textbooks onto tape and associated work such as monitoring recordings, copying tapes, etc.
All recording is done in response to specific requests from blind or dyslexic people.
Typically you volunteer for one two-hour session per week. When you've sat through someone reading descriptions of charts and graphs, you realize it's going to be a long time before Kurzweil machines are good for much beyond newspapers, magazines, and novels. Professional affiliations I work as a Unix System Administrator at the Sun Microsystems Los Angeles Software Center. Formerly I worked at Xerox Corp. and at Northrop Grumman Corp. in El Segundo, California. Emergency text pager .