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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
    159contributions
    high115
    medium44
    score389
    Last 90 days
    319contributions
    high202
    medium117
    score723
    Last 12 months
    1076contributions
    high667
    medium409
    score2410

    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 30 Thu · 20:40
    Core high
    Pushed 1 commit to WordPress/WordPress:
    Media: Align date filters to left when type filters not…
    Jul 30 Thu · 20:27
    Core med
    Closed ticket #65276 on Core Trac:
    Media Library: Date filter is offset with empty left space when type ...
    Jul 30 Thu · 20:27
    Core high
    Committed [62950] to WordPress SVN:
    Media: Align date filters to left when type filters not present.
    Jul 30 Thu · 19:36
    Core med
    Created ticket #65766 on Core Trac:
    Search engine visibility missing aria-describedby
    Jul 30 Thu · 19:17
    Core med
    Submitted pull request #12777 to WordPress/wordpress-develop:
    Update labelling on reading and discussion
    Jul 30 Thu · 18:22
    Core med
    Created ticket #65765 on Core Trac:
    No :focus state on the home icon (`.wp-admin-bar-site-name a`) in ...
    Jul 30 Thu · 14:54
    Core high
    Mentioned in [62943] on WordPress SVN:
    Administration: Fix the alignment of the 'Update to' button in the 'At a Glance' Dashboard widget.
    Jul 30 Thu · 13:54
    Core med
    Closed ticket #65763 on Core Trac:
    Administration: Responsive list tables: the toggle-row button escapes ...
    Jul 29 Wed · 19:34
    Forums med
    Posted a reply to Recurring Events Acting Strangely, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
    FYI, I have a fix to this covering a couple of different cases; the most…
    Jul 29 Wed · 19:32
    Forums med
    Posted a reply to “Update when Posts are edited” ignored, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
    I can't realistically confirm that it doesn't affect anything outside of XPoster, ever. But the…