A few months ago I was in the middle of my most important, and ultimately most enjoyable, multimedia project to date. This was the creation of four instructional videos for the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), during the final months of my assignment with the CMS Office of Information Technology (OIT) through my employer, government contractor SeKON.

In my role as a Senior Communications Specialist and editor of the OIT newsletter at CMS, I had become familiar with Section 508, the federal government law that mandates the accessibility of documents and media to people with disabilities. However, to work directly with the CMS Section 508 Team (seen below, leading a training session for employees), was an unexpected pleasure. These are the the people behind the oversight of 508 standards throughout CMS, and they required a series of videos to better instruct employees and contractors about the need for and the requirements of accessibility.

The project involved meeting with the Section 508 team, writing and reviewing the script, creating the whiteboard animation, and recording the voiceovers. (CMS maintains its own professional video and audio studios, but for this project, because of the short deadline and to help expedite the process, I handled the one-on-one work with the Section 508 Team and created the animation myself, so I relied on the CMS for only their audio recording and editing services.)

You can see and hear (and read, through closed captioning) these productions on the CMS YouTube Channel:

By the way... the CMS audio team liked working with me so much that they asked me to provide the voiceover for an early version of one of their productions for MLN Telehealth Services.