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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
    188contributions
    high97
    medium91
    score382
    Last 90 days
    311contributions
    high193
    medium118
    score697
    Last 12 months
    335contributions
    high210
    medium125
    score755

    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
    • 4.5
    • 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
    September 2026
    Sep 05 Sat · 13:52
    Core high
    Pushed 1 commit to WordPress/WordPress:
    Administration: Fix the CSS Coding Standards in admin-menu.css.
    Sep 05 Sat · 13:51
    Core med
    Closed pull request #13115 on WordPress/wordpress-develop:
    Lint the admin-menu.css file
    Sep 05 Sat · 13:50
    Core high
    Committed [63506] to WordPress SVN:
    Administration: Fix the CSS Coding Standards in admin-menu.css.
    Sep 05 Sat · 13:44
    Core med
    Closed pull request #13158 on WordPress/wordpress-develop:
    Lint the admin-bar.css file
    Sep 05 Sat · 13:43
    Core high
    Pushed 1 commit to WordPress/WordPress:
    Administration: Remove unnecessary empty line in buttons.css.
    Sep 05 Sat · 13:41
    Core high
    Committed [63505] to WordPress SVN:
    Administration: Remove unnecessary empty line in buttons.css.
    Sep 05 Sat · 13:35
    Core high
    Pushed 1 commit to WordPress/WordPress:
    Administration: Fix the CSS Coding Standards in admin-bar.css.
    Sep 05 Sat · 13:34
    Core high
    Committed [63504] to WordPress SVN:
    Administration: Fix the CSS Coding Standards in admin-bar.css.
    Sep 05 Sat · 13:24
    Core high
    Pushed 1 commit to WordPress/WordPress:
    Administration: Fix the CSS Coding Standards in revisions.css.
    Sep 05 Sat · 13:23
    Core med
    Closed pull request #13146 on WordPress/wordpress-develop:
    Lint the revisions.css file

    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 7.1.x - Development

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