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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
    161contributions
    high108
    medium53
    score377
    Last 90 days
    430contributions
    high317
    medium113
    score1064
    Last 12 months
    1199contributions
    high791
    medium408
    score2781

    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 09 Wed · 03:23
    Forums med
    Posted a reply to Overlay but no post pop-up, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
    @nothroughroad The fix was released in version 3.8.4, 4 days ago.
    Sep 09 Wed · 03:19
    Plugins high
    Committed [3687525] to Plugins SVN:
    <a class="ext-link" href="https://github.com/joedolson/my-tickets/releases/tag/v2.3.0">​https://github.com/joedolson/my-tickets/releases/tag/v2.3.0</a>
    Sep 09 Wed · 01:56
    Core med
    Closed ticket #65674 on Core Trac:
    Tooltip Delay Timer Race Condition (wp-includes/js/wp-tooltip.js)
    Sep 09 Wed · 01:56
    Core high
    Committed [63550] to WordPress SVN:
    Administration: Prevent race condition in wp-tooltip.js delay timer.
    Sep 09 Wed · 01:55
    Core high
    Pushed 1 commit to WordPress/WordPress:
    Administration: Prevent race condition in wp-tooltip.js delay timer.
    Sep 09 Wed · 01:54
    Core med
    Reopened ticket #65674 on Core Trac:
    Tooltip Delay Timer Race Condition (wp-includes/js/wp-tooltip.js)
    Sep 09 Wed · 01:53
    Core med
    Closed ticket #65674 on Core Trac:
    Tooltip Delay Timer Race Condition (wp-includes/js/wp-tooltip.js)
    Sep 09 Wed · 01:53
    Core high
    Committed [63549] to WordPress SVN:
    Administration: Prevent race condition in wp-tooltip.js delay timer.
    Sep 09 Wed · 01:47
    Core med
    Closed ticket #65943 on Core Trac:
    wp-tooltip 7.1 bug
    Sep 09 Wed · 01:47
    Core high
    Committed [63548] to WordPress SVN:
    Administration: Prevent errors in wp-tooltip.js on browsers without popover support.