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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
    69contributions
    high33
    medium36
    score135
    Last 90 days
    172contributions
    high77
    medium95
    score326
    Last 12 months
    889contributions
    high508
    medium381
    score1905

    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
    June 2026
    Jun 25 Thu · 11:09
    Core high
    Mentioned in [62562] on WordPress SVN:
    Media: Fix input position shift during admin search.
    Jun 25 Thu · 10:45
    Core high
    Mentioned in [62561] on WordPress SVN:
    Editor: Allow publish meta box action row to wrap.
    Jun 23 Tue · 22:49
    Forums med
    Posted a reply to Odd line breaks, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
    Well, it's because of the CSS word-break and hyphen settings in My Calendar - although…
    Jun 23 Tue · 22:44
    Forums med
    Posted a reply to Submission form displaying twice on Submit Event page, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
    The submissions form is part of My Calendar Pro, and I can't provide support for…
    Jun 20 Sat · 18:45
    Forums med
    Posted a reply to Conditional query tags do not work before the query is run, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
    Thanks! I'm curious what theme or plugin you're using that might be triggering this. The…
    Jun 20 Sat · 16:00
    Playground med
    Created issue #3815 in the WordPress/wordpress-playground repository:
    Autosave progress announcements emitted constantly for screen readers
    Jun 19 Fri · 11:02
    Core high
    Mentioned in [62531] on WordPress SVN:
    KSES: Add command and commandfor to the list of allowed attributes for buttons.
    Jun 14 Sun · 22:44
    Meta med
    Created ticket #8305 on Meta Trac:
    Plugin screenshot lightbox has nested controls
    Jun 12 Fri · 22:18
    Meta med
    Closed ticket #8303 on Meta Trac:
    new version of plugin not available for update
    Jun 12 Fri · 16:33
    Forums med
    Posted a reply to List view is not following template setting, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
    This is the result of a common misunderstanding that I really need to put some…