Ten Questions for Gian Sampson Wild

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I’m very excited to have finally cornered Gian Sampson Wild for the first of a new series of “Ten questions” interviews.

Gian Sampson Wild has worked in the accessibility industry for over seven years. She ran the accessibility consultancy PurpleTop for five years and built the automated accessibility testing tool PurpleCop. Gian worked as the accessibility consultant for the Melbourne 2006 Commonwealth Games for over two years and trained Microsoft developers on how to maintain the accessibility of the site. Gian has been a Member of the W3C Web Content Accessibility Guidelines Working Group for over six years and has spent a significant amount of time working on WCAG, Version 2.0.

Gian talks about accessibility, WCAG 2.0, cognitive disability, Baseline, valid code, AAA and opening shopping malls. Ten Questions for Gian Sampson Wild

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Date: 5 July 2006
Author: Russ Weakley
Category: Ten Questions
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  1. Luke says:
    July 6, 2006 at 2:41 pm

    Another great addition to the Ten Question series. Thanks Russ.

  2. Russ says:
    July 6, 2006 at 6:10 pm

    Thanks Luke, though the credit must go to Gian. After all, she did all the hard work writing the answers :)