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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
    6 badges
    C Core AI Contributor '26 Core Contributor '15 Core Team '24 Meta Contributor '15 Plugin 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
    157contributions
    high110
    medium47
    score377
    Last 90 days
    427contributions
    high311
    medium116
    score1049
    Last 12 months
    1181contributions
    high776
    medium405
    score2733

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

    Time commitment

    16 hours per week

    Contributions

    Type
    September 2026
    Sep 04 Fri · 22:44
    Core high
    Committed [63484] to WordPress SVN:
    Administration: Fix plugin update row in narrow viewports.
    Sep 04 Fri · 22:44
    Core med
    Closed ticket #65956 on Core Trac:
    Mobile layout breaks on post list table during plugin update
    Sep 04 Fri · 22:41
    Core med
    Closed ticket #65918 on Core Trac:
    Tooltip icon is not aligned with "Remember Me" text in login box
    Sep 04 Fri · 22:41
    Core high
    Committed [63483] to WordPress SVN:
    Login and Registration: Align tooltip icon with control.
    Sep 04 Fri · 22:03
    Core med
    Submitted pull request #13408 to WordPress/wordpress-develop:
    Gate popover handling
    Sep 04 Fri · 21:47
    Core high
    Pushed 1 commit to WordPress/WordPress:
    Administration: Fix doubled border on mobile for paused plugins.
    Sep 04 Fri · 21:46
    Core med
    Reopened ticket #65985 on Core Trac:
    Plugins: In < 782px screens paused plugins has two left borders
    Sep 04 Fri · 21:45
    Core med
    Closed ticket #65985 on Core Trac:
    Plugins: In < 782px screens paused plugins has two left borders
    Sep 04 Fri · 21:45
    Core high
    Committed [63482] to WordPress SVN:
    Administration: Fix doubled border on mobile for paused plugins.
    Sep 04 Fri · 20:12
    Forums med
    Posted a reply to Google maps stopped working, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
    Can you tell me what version you had upgraded *from*? There are changes in the…