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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
    208contributions
    high160
    medium48
    score528
    Last 90 days
    369contributions
    high250
    medium119
    score869
    Last 12 months
    1136contributions
    high732
    medium404
    score2600

    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 · 06:17
    Core high
    Mentioned in [63176] on WordPress SVN:
    Login and Registration: Clarify the "Remember Me" toggletip text.
    Aug 11 Tue · 06:13
    Core high
    Mentioned in [63175] on WordPress SVN:
    Login and Registration: Clarify the "Remember Me" toggletip text.
    Aug 11 Tue · 05:54
    Meta high
    Received props from @masteradhoc in Slack:
    The # part of the WordPress 7.1 release is complete! :tada: 13 privacy tickets are…
    Aug 10 Mon · 22:59
    Core high
    Committed [63168] to WordPress SVN:
    Post 7.1 branching changes for the 7.1 branch.
    Aug 10 Mon · 22:26
    Core high
    Committed [63167] to WordPress SVN:
    Build/Test Tools: Post-branching updates for `trunk`.
    Aug 10 Mon · 18:09
    Core high
    Committed [63166] to WordPress SVN:
    Branch 7.1.
    Aug 10 Mon · 17:36
    Core med
    Submitted pull request #12962 to WordPress/wordpress-develop:
    Build/Test Tools: Post-branching updates for `trunk`
    Aug 10 Mon · 14:55
    Meta med
    Wrote a comment on the post Accessibility-ready Theme Reviews: Extending the Deadline, on the site Make WordPress Accessible:
    This is because of how the theme directory works; tags are derived directly from the…
    Aug 07 Fri · 20:58
    Core med
    Closed issue #51818 on the WordPress/gutenberg repository:
    Title bar has no visible focus state
    Aug 06 Thu · 20:47
    Core high
    Mentioned in [63122] on WordPress SVN:
    Add missing changes from [63104].