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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
    7 badges
    C Core AI Contributor '26 Core Contributor '15 Core Team '24 Meta Contributor '15 Plugin Developer Theme 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
    82contributions
    high63
    medium19
    score208
    Last 90 days
    203contributions
    high110
    medium93
    score423
    Last 12 months
    982contributions
    high598
    medium384
    score2178

    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
    • 4.4
    • 4.3
    • 4.2
    • 4.1
    • 4.0
    • 3.9
    • 3.8

    Time commitment

    16 hours per week

    Contributions

    Type
    July 2026
    Jul 03 Fri · 23:55
    Core med
    Closed ticket #62864 on Core Trac:
    Add padding and color changes to buttons and inputs
    Jul 03 Fri · 23:44
    Core med
    Closed ticket #57521 on Core Trac:
    Appearance -» Customize not working after update 5.8
    Jul 03 Fri · 23:43
    Core med
    Closed ticket #54202 on Core Trac:
    Bad display of images with transparent background.
    Jul 03 Fri · 23:43
    Core med
    Closed ticket #58419 on Core Trac:
    Changing categories
    Jul 03 Fri · 15:36
    Core high
    Mentioned in [62632] on WordPress SVN:
    Media: Enable Media Library infinite scrolling and add an opt-out user option.
    Jul 02 Thu · 21:11
    Forums med
    Posted a reply to Recurring Events Acting Strangely, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
    I made a change in 3.7.14 that fixed a bug where all-day event instances were…
    Jul 02 Thu · 21:07
    Forums med
    Posted a reply to Nothing posting on Mastodon, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
    Interesting. I'll have to see whether there's any way I can detect that a connection…
    Jul 02 Thu · 21:04
    Forums med
    Posted a reply to Display space between events, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
    You have an inline style in your custom CSS that's setting the header element to…
    Jul 02 Thu · 20:57
    Plugins high
    Committed [3594529] to Plugins SVN:
    <a class="ext-link" href="https://github.com/joedolson/my-tickets/releases/tag/v2.2.2">​https://github.com/joedolson/my-tickets/releases/tag/v2.2.2</a>
    Jul 02 Thu · 20:39
    Plugins high
    Committed [3594516] to Plugins SVN:
    <a class="ext-link" href="https://github.com/joedolson/my-calendar/releases/tag/v3.7.16">​https://github.com/joedolson/my-calendar/releases/tag/v3.7.16</a>