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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

    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
    97contributions
    high79
    medium18
    score255
    Last 90 days
    129contributions
    high99
    medium30
    score327
    Last 12 months
    152contributions
    high116
    medium36
    score384

    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
    August 2026
    Aug 07 Fri · 15:39
    Core med
    Created issue #81349 in the WordPress/gutenberg repository:
    Extract the Stylelint set of rules so that it can be reused…
    Aug 07 Fri · 15:20
    Core med
    Submitted pull request #12934 to WordPress/wordpress-develop:
    Add stylelint CSS linting
    Aug 06 Thu · 17:39
    Core med
    Submitted pull request #12919 to WordPress/wordpress-develop:
    Test CSS coding standards errors.
    Aug 05 Wed · 15:01
    Core med
    Created ticket #65816 on Core Trac:
    Gallery block: Uncaught TypeError when trying to edit a gallery image ...
    Aug 05 Wed · 14:41
    Core med
    Created ticket #65814 on Core Trac:
    Image editor: Buttons become progressively unreachable with the keyboard
    Aug 05 Wed · 13:19
    Core high
    Mentioned in [63029] on WordPress SVN:
    Media: Fix positioning of active spinner.
    Aug 04 Tue · 20:02
    Core med
    Created ticket #65807 on Core Trac:
    Some text displayed in the Privacy tables has insufficient color ...
    Aug 04 Tue · 17:28
    Core high
    Committed [63009] to WordPress SVN:
    Toolbar: Improve the focus style indication.
    Aug 04 Tue · 16:44
    Core med
    Closed ticket #65756 on Core Trac:
    Media grid: the 'selected' style does not have sufficient color ...
    Aug 04 Tue · 12:04
    Core med
    Submitted pull request #12838 to WordPress/wordpress-develop:
    Set the media attachments query posts per page conditionally.

    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 – Activity Log & Audit Trail 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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