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Andrea Fercia

Accessibility specialist at Self employed

@afercia Rome, Italy joined Jan 2012

linkedin.com/in/andreafercia github.com/afercia Slack: @afercia
    Teams Accessibility Core
    Languages it_IT

    Bio

    I’ve started a bunch of years ago in the pre-gmail era when websites were built with tables for layout purposes, font-size set to 10px and PHP still stood for “Personal Home Page”.

    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
    5contributions
    high3
    medium2
    score11
    Last 90 days
    14contributions
    high7
    medium7
    score28
    Last 12 months
    31contributions
    high23
    medium8
    score77

    Team focus

    Share of contributions across teams during the last 365 days

    WordPress releases

    Contributed to 31 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
    • 4.1
    • 4.0
    • 3.9

    Time commitment

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

    Contributions

    Type
    June 2026
    Jun 12 Fri · 12:45
    Core med
    Submitted pull request #12163 to WordPress/wordpress-develop:
    Improve accessibility of the setup config page
    Jun 12 Fri · 09:26
    Core med
    Created ticket #65454 on Core Trac:
    Improve accessibility of the setup-config.php page
    Jun 04 Thu · 14:33
    Core med
    Created issue #78952 in the WordPress/gutenberg repository:
    Focus loss when closing the Create pattern dialog opened from the block…
    May 2026
    May 21 Thu · 06:52
    Core high
    Mentioned in [62396] on WordPress SVN:
    Abilities: Return the site locale for the core/get-site-info language field
    May 21 Thu · 05:51
    Core high
    Mentioned in [62394] on WordPress SVN:
    Abilities: Return the site locale for the `core/get-site-info` language field.
    May 11 Mon · 12:26
    Core high
    Merged pull request #77608 into WordPress/gutenberg:
    Document how to ignore VSCode Workplace Settings.
    May 04 Mon · 06:32
    Core high
    Merged pull request #77606 into WordPress/gutenberg:
    Update references to default branch.
    April 2026
    Apr 23 Thu · 11:59
    Core med
    Submitted pull request #77608 to WordPress/gutenberg:
    Document how to ignore VSCode Workplace Settings.
    Apr 23 Thu · 11:35
    Core med
    Submitted pull request #77606 to WordPress/gutenberg:
    Update references to default branch.
    March 2026
    Mar 29 Sun · 18:05
    GitHub med
    Created issue #351 in the WordPress/ai repository:
    Abilities that generate content that will be exposed on the front end…

    Contributor

    1 plugin

    Plugins

    18 favorites

    Themes

    1 favorite

    Translations

    1 locale
    it_IT Italiano (Italian) Plugins Translation Editor Translation Contributor

    Translation editor for 10 projects.

    Redirectioner ACF Content Analysis for Yoast SEO Clicky by Yoast Yoast Duplicate Post Gutenberg Print, PDF, Email by PrintFriendly Query Monitor Yoast SEO – Advanced SEO with real-time guidance and built-in AI Comment Experience by Progress Planner Yoast Test Helper

    Contributed translations to 23 projects.

    WordCamp.org Gutenberg LearnPress – WordPress LMS Plugin for Create and Sell Online Courses MainWP Dashboard: Self-hosted WordPress Management for Agencies Query Monitor Stream Responsive Table Layout Yoast SEO – Advanced SEO with real-time guidance and built-in AI Gaga Lite WordPress 4.2.x WordPress 4.3.x WordPress 4.4.x WordPress 4.5.x WordPress 4.6.x WordPress 4.7.x WordPress 4.8.x WordPress 4.9.x WordPress 5.0.x WordPress 5.1.x WordPress 5.2.x WordPress 5.3.x WordPress 5.9.x WordPress 7.0.x - Development

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