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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
    2 badges
    Accessibility Contributor '19 Accessibility Team '14
    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
    66contributions
    high16
    medium50
    score98
    Last 90 days
    198contributions
    high105
    medium93
    score408
    Last 12 months
    869contributions
    high490
    medium379
    score1849

    Team focus

    Share of contributions across teams during the last 365 days

    WordPress releases

    Contributed to 29 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
    • 3.9
    • 3.8

    Time commitment

    16 hours per week

    Contributions

    Type
    June 2026
    Jun 05 Fri · 22:08
    Core high
    Pushed 1 commit to WordPress/WordPress:
    Media: Fix input position shift during admin search.
    Jun 05 Fri · 22:07
    Core med
    Reopened ticket #65153 on Core Trac:
    Identify selected buttons (.active in button groups) in Windows High ...
    Jun 05 Fri · 22:07
    Core med
    Reopened ticket #65296 on Core Trac:
    Library section under Media, search bar shifts position after ...
    Jun 05 Fri · 22:06
    Core med
    Closed ticket #65296 on Core Trac:
    Library section under Media, search bar shifts position after ...
    Jun 05 Fri · 22:06
    Core high
    Committed [62469] to WordPress SVN:
    Media: Fix input position shift during admin search.
    Jun 05 Fri · 21:26
    Core high
    Pushed 1 commit to WordPress/WordPress:
    Administration: Fix button active states in high contrast mode.
    Jun 05 Fri · 21:24
    Core med
    Closed ticket #65153 on Core Trac:
    Identify selected buttons (.active in button groups) in Windows High ...
    Jun 05 Fri · 21:24
    Core high
    Committed [62467] to WordPress SVN:
    Administration: Fix button active states in high contrast mode.
    Jun 05 Fri · 09:05
    Meta med
    Created ticket #8281 on Meta Trac:
    Navigation menu and search button broken on codex.wordpress.org
    Jun 04 Thu · 09:44
    Core high
    Mentioned in [62459] on WordPress SVN:
    Toolbar: Fix unnatural focus outline on frontend.