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Accessibility Specialist, WordPress Core Committer, Senior Frontend engineer.

As a Core Committer since 2015 and a member of the WordPress Accessibility Team, I contributed to advancing accessibility standards within WordPress, delivering accessibility improvements for millions of users globally.

With over 10 years at Yoast BV, I specialised in modern WordPress development as a senior frontend developer and digital accessibility specialist.

Open-source contributor, speaker, mentor, and accessibility advocate. Over the course of more than 20 years of digital accessibility practice, I learned a couple things about people’s needs, browsers, and assistive technology. Interested in scaling accessibility within product teams and fostering accessibility culture in large organisations.

Interests

Tech, Arts in general, history, good movies and all kind of music.

Badges

CODE
6 badges
C Core AI Contributor '26 Core Contributor '15 Core Team '16 Design Contributor '19 Meta Contributor '16 Plugin Developer
CONTENT
2 badges
Documentation Contributor '17 WordPress.tv Contributor '16
COMMUNITY
3 badges
bbPress Contributor '20 WordCamp Organizer '16 WordCamp Speaker '23
PRACTICE
2 badges
Accessibility Contributor '19 Accessibility Team '15
POLYGLOTS
2 badges
Translation Contributor '15 Translation Editor '17

Current Job

Accessibility specialist
May 2026 – Present
Self employed

Job History

Accessibility specialist, Senior frontend engineer
Mar 2016 – May 2026
Yoast

Recent impact

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

Last 30 days
21contributions
high11
medium10
score43
Last 90 days
28contributions
high15
medium13
score58
Last 12 months
49contributions
high32
medium17
score113

Team focus

Share of contributions across teams during the last 365 days

WordPress releases

Contributed to 32 releases
  • 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
  • 4.5
  • 4.4
  • 4.3
  • 4.2
  • 4.1
  • 4.0
  • 3.9

Time commitment

10 hours per week
  • On my own time 10 hrs/wk

Contributions

Type
June 2026
Jun 30 Tue · 18:55
Core high
Mentioned in [62597] on WordPress SVN:
Login and Registration: Restore underline on links.
Jun 27 Sat · 12:37
Core med
Created ticket #65548 on Core Trac:
Audit usage of edit_post()
Jun 25 Thu · 10:05
Core med
Created issue #79530 in the WordPress/gutenberg repository:
Replace al the 'local' aria-live regions with @wordpress/a11y speak
Jun 25 Thu · 09:50
Core med
Created issue #79526 in the WordPress/gutenberg repository:
Quick Draft dashboard widget should allow to save drafts with empty Title…
Jun 25 Thu · 07:23
Core med
Created ticket #65539 on Core Trac:
Quick Draft: Improve the 'highlight' styling of newly added drafts
Jun 19 Fri · 11:02
Core med
Closed ticket #64576 on Core Trac:
Add support for invoker command attributes
Jun 19 Fri · 11:02
Core high
Committed [62531] to WordPress SVN:
KSES: Add command and commandfor to the list of allowed attributes for buttons.
Jun 19 Fri · 09:30
Core med
Created ticket #65491 on Core Trac:
Add support for the autofocus attribute within dialog elements
Jun 19 Fri · 06:41
Core high
Mentioned in [62530] on WordPress SVN:
KSES: Allow SVG presentation attributes in safe_style_css.
Jun 18 Thu · 12:58
Core med
Created issue #79321 in the WordPress/gutenberg repository:
Welcome dashboard widget: Add heading to identify what the cards are about

Contributor

1 plugin