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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
    85contributions
    high69
    medium16
    score223
    Last 90 days
    226contributions
    high138
    medium88
    score502
    Last 12 months
    1016contributions
    high628
    medium388
    score2272

    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 15 Wed · 02:56
    Core high
    Mentioned in [62747] on WordPress SVN:
    External Libraries: Update the jQuery UI library to version 1.14.2.
    Jul 14 Tue · 22:42
    Core med
    Created issue #80280 in the WordPress/gutenberg repository:
    Content Guidelines: UX/UI Accessibility issues
    Jul 14 Tue · 21:46
    Core high
    Pushed 1 commit to WordPress/WordPress:
    Customize: Add visible text on responsive view switches.
    Jul 14 Tue · 21:43
    Core high
    Committed [62745] to WordPress SVN:
    Customize: Add visible text on responsive view switches.
    Jul 14 Tue · 21:43
    Core med
    Closed ticket #36447 on Core Trac:
    Responsive preview icons in Customizer need visible text
    Jul 14 Tue · 20:51
    Core med
    Submitted pull request #12528 to WordPress/wordpress-develop:
    Add support for tooltips for metabox controls
    Jul 14 Tue · 20:19
    Forums med
    Posted a reply to Captions area empty, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
    The descriptionsparameter adds audio descriptions. To add captions, you'd want to to use captions parameter.
    Jul 14 Tue · 20:16
    Core med
    Created ticket #65633 on Core Trac:
    Toggle tips should also display tooltips
    Jul 14 Tue · 18:52
    Core high
    Pushed 1 commit to WordPress/WordPress:
    Administration: Add function for tooltips and toggle tips.
    Jul 14 Tue · 18:50
    Core high
    Committed [62741] to WordPress SVN:
    Administration: Add function for tooltips and toggle tips.