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joedolson

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WordPress accessibility guy. Plugin developer. Core #a11y contributor to WordPress and @wpa11yday

Funding Links: https://github.com/sponsors/joedolson

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Hi! I'm Joe Dolson, and I'm a contributor to WordPress and the creator of several WordPress plugins. I've been working to help make WordPress accessible since 2012, and am hoping for additional support to keep contributing without burning out.
In the last eight years, I've helped WordPress move forward on many accessibility points, including:

instituting the WordPress theme accessibility program,
helping push WordPress to a commitment to follow WCAG 2.0 at level AA
help review new project and provide accessibility advice for major initiatives such as Gutenberg
lead the first WP Accessibility Day, a 24 hour event to talk about WordPress and Accessibility

But as a freelancer, my time is unfunded, and that causes an ongoing struggle to manage to contribute as effectively as I can without having to choose between burnout, bankruptcy, or no longer being able to contribute to the project.
Having some portion of income targeted directly to support my work on WordPress would make this process considerably more manageable. Thank you for any support you can provide! In addition to working on WordPress directly, I'd like to be able to dedicate some time to some of the accessibility-focused side projects I've worked on that don't have any income tied to them, such as Access Monitor, WP Accessibility, and Accessible Video Library. These can provide valuable services for the WordPress community, but I have limited availability to spend time on them.

Featured Works

WordPress/WordPress

WordPress, Git-ified. This repository is just a mirror of the WordPress subversion repository. Please do not send pull requests. Submit pull requests to https://github.com/WordPress/wordpress-devel…

Language: PHP - Stars: 19632
joedolson/wp-accessibility

WP Accessibility

Language: PHP - Stars: 50
joedolson/access-monitor

Plug-in to check WordPress site accessibility using Tenon.io

Language: PHP - Stars: 18
joedolson/accessible-video-library

Add WordPress UI for adding captions and transcripts to MediaElementJS videos

Language: PHP - Stars: 1

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