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Joe Dolson

Owner at Accessible Web Design

@joedolson Saint Paul, MN joined Oct 2008

joedolson.com github.com/joedolson Slack: @joedolson
    Teams Accessibility Core

    Bio

    I’m a WordPress plug-in developer and a web accessibility consultant. I’m part of the Make WordPress Accessible team, the team dedicated to improving accessibility in the WordPress ecosystem.

    I’m self-employed, but since fall 2022 I’ve had part-time sponsorship from GoDaddy to contribute to WordPress. In March 2025, I also welcomed sponsorship from Kinsta to expand my ability to contribute.

    WordPress Origin Story

    I’ve been self-employed building web sites & providing consulting services since 2004, and started using WordPress in 2006, converting my own blog from BlogSpot to WordPress. In 2008 I started building plugins, then started contributing to core regularly in 2012. I’m now a core committer, and have been in the credits for every version of WordPress since 3.8 (except for 4.5.)

    Badges

    CODE
    6 badges
    C Core AI Contributor '26 Core Contributor '15 Core Team '24 Meta Contributor '15 Plugin Developer Themes Team '14
    CONTENT
    1 badge
    WordPress.tv Contributor '16
    COMMUNITY
    2 badges
    bbPress Contributor '20 WordCamp Speaker '19
    PRACTICE
    3 badges
    Accessibility Contributor '19 Accessibility Team '14 Support Contributor '26
    POLYGLOTS
    1 badge
    Translation Contributor '25

    Current Job

    Owner
    Present
    Accessible Web Design

    Recent impact

    Score weights high-impact work (commits, releases, approved translations, props) at 3x routine activity.

    Last 30 days
    129contributions
    high72
    medium57
    score273
    Last 90 days
    453contributions
    high332
    medium121
    score1117
    Last 12 months
    1217contributions
    high807
    medium410
    score2831

    Team focus

    Share of contributions across teams during the last 365 days

    WordPress releases

    Contributed to 33 releases
    • 7.1
    • 7.0
    • 6.9
    • 6.8
    • 6.7
    • 6.6
    • 6.5
    • 6.4
    • 6.3
    • 6.2
    • 6.1
    • 6.0
    • 5.9
    • 5.8
    • 5.7
    • 5.6
    • 5.5
    • 5.4
    • 5.3
    • 5.2
    • 5.1
    • 5.0
    • 4.9
    • 4.8
    • 4.7
    • 4.6
    • 4.4
    • 4.3
    • 4.2
    • 4.1
    • 4.0
    • 3.9
    • 3.8

    Time commitment

    16 hours per week

    Contributions

    Type
    September 2026
    Sep 16 Wed · 20:42
    Core high
    Pushed 1 commit to WordPress/WordPress:
    Privacy: Restore list table zebra striping.
    Sep 16 Wed · 20:40
    Core high
    Committed [63645] to WordPress SVN:
    Privacy: Restore list table zebra striping.
    Sep 16 Wed · 19:59
    Forums med
    Posted a reply to List view: Event count is 0, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
    This has been fixed!
    Sep 16 Wed · 19:14
    Core high
    Pushed 1 commit to WordPress/WordPress:
    Administration: Show `#wpfooter` on mobile viewports.
    Sep 16 Wed · 19:12
    Core med
    Closed ticket #65488 on Core Trac:
    #wpfooter unavailable on 200% zoom (WCAG 1.4.10 Reflow (Level AA))
    Sep 16 Wed · 19:12
    Core high
    Committed [63642] to WordPress SVN:
    Administration: Show `#wpfooter` on mobile viewports.
    Sep 16 Wed · 16:34
    Forums med
    Posted a reply to Upcoming Events, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
    Took a little while to figure it out, but I've got a fix and it'll…
    Sep 16 Wed · 16:21
    Forums med
    Posted a reply to Feature request, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
    This is already a feature in My Calendar Pro, where you can set the details…
    Sep 16 Wed · 16:04
    Forums med
    Posted a reply to My Calendar 3.8.5 – JavaScript error when Event Location is enabled with no regi, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
    Thanks for reporting! This is fixed for the next minor release.
    Sep 16 Wed · 15:58
    Forums med
    Posted a reply to Created a custom CSS, but another file reset.css seems to also be loaded, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
    Thanks for following up! For anybody else with this issue, the reset.css is the core…