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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
    210contributions
    high162
    medium48
    score534
    Last 90 days
    380contributions
    high261
    medium119
    score902
    Last 12 months
    1146contributions
    high743
    medium403
    score2632

    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
    August 2026
    Aug 11 Tue · 21:07
    Core med
    Closed ticket #65698 on Core Trac:
    About Page - 7.1
    Aug 11 Tue · 21:07
    Core high
    Committed [63186] to WordPress SVN:
    Help/About: Update the About page for 7.1.
    Aug 11 Tue · 21:00
    Core high
    Pushed 1 commit to WordPress/WordPress:
    Help/About: Correct the version description.
    Aug 11 Tue · 20:44
    Core high
    Committed [63185] to WordPress SVN:
    Help/About: Correct the version description.
    Aug 11 Tue · 20:20
    Core high
    Pushed 2 commits to WordPress/WordPress:
    Help/About: Remove an extra space in a string.
    Aug 11 Tue · 20:14
    Core high
    Committed [63184] to WordPress SVN:
    Help/About: Remove an extra space in a string.
    Aug 11 Tue · 18:53
    Core med
    Closed ticket #65564 on Core Trac:
    Enable infinite scrolling in the Media Library grid view by default
    Aug 11 Tue · 18:53
    Core med
    Created ticket #65850 on Core Trac:
    Adjust the number of images per page loaded during infinite scroll
    Aug 11 Tue · 18:40
    Core high
    Pushed 1 commit to WordPress/WordPress:
    Help/About: Update the About page for 7.1
    Aug 11 Tue · 18:38
    Core med
    Reopened ticket #65698 on Core Trac:
    About Page - 7.1