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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
    212contributions
    high174
    medium38
    score560
    Last 90 days
    403contributions
    high284
    medium119
    score971
    Last 12 months
    1149contributions
    high754
    medium395
    score2657

    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 16 Sun · 01:19
    Core high
    Mentioned in [63304] on WordPress SVN:
    Help/About: Optimize the About page images.
    Aug 13 Thu · 16:51
    Meta med
    Wrote a comment on the post Accessibility Improvements in WordPress 7.1, on the site Make WordPress Core:
    +make.wordpress.org/accessibility/
    Aug 13 Thu · 16:51
    Meta high
    Wrote a new post, Accessibility Improvements in WordPress 7.1, on the site Make WordPress Core:
    WordPress 7.1 continues to polish accessibility across WordPress Core and Gutenberg, advancing the goals to…
    Aug 13 Thu · 11:03
    Meta high
    Received props from @krupajnanda in Slack:
    Props to @wildworks, @adrianduffell, and @joedolson for ensuring the Top 40 report was triaged and…
    Aug 12 Wed · 16:28
    Meta high
    Received props from @krupajnanda in Slack:
    Props to @wildworks, @joedolson, and @SergeyBiryukov for helping with the various release tasks. :hero:
    Aug 12 Wed · 14:53
    Core med
    Closed ticket #65856 on Core Trac:
    Lint the About page CSS for 7.1
    Aug 12 Wed · 14:49
    Core high
    Mentioned in [63233] on WordPress SVN:
    Coding Standards: Lint the About page CSS.
    Aug 12 Wed · 14:45
    Core high
    Committed [63232] to WordPress SVN:
    I18N: Add translator comments in wp_notify_moderator().
    Aug 12 Wed · 14:44
    Core high
    Mentioned in [63231] on WordPress SVN:
    Bundled themes: Version bumps for version 7.1.
    Aug 12 Wed · 14:43
    Core high
    Mentioned in [63230] on WordPress SVN:
    Build/Test Tools: Change workflow file references back to local ones.