Rian Rietveld
@rianrietveld on WordPress.org, @Rian Rietveld on Slack
Bio
Contributions Sponsored
- Member Since: June 14th, 2009
- Location: The Netherlands
- Website: rianrietveld.com
- GitHub: rianrietveld
- Job Title: Web accessibility specialist
Contribution History
Rian Rietveld’s badges:- Accessibility Contributor
- Accessibility Team
- BuddyPress Contributor
- Core Contributor
- Meetup Organizer
- Meta Contributor
- Plugin Developer
- Translation Contributor
- Translation Editor
- WordCamp Speaker
- WordPress.tv Contributor
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Wrote a new post, WP A11y Docs update October 2025, on the site Make WordPress Accessible:
This update informs you about: publication of new content, the accessibility of wpaccessibility.org itself; presentations… -
Wrote a new post, WP A11y Docs update September 2025, on the site Make WordPress Accessible:
This update informs you about: the Knowledge Base is ready to contribute, issues on GitHub… -
Wrote a new post, Update project WP A11y Docs August 2025, on the site Make WordPress Accessible:
This update informs you about: the brainstorm session about the content; new contributors that joined… -
Wrote a new post, Update project WP A11y Docs, on the site Make WordPress Accessible:
Update of the WP A11y Docs for August 2025. -
Wrote a new post, Results survey “Which WP accessibility documentation do you need”, on the site Make WordPress Accessible:
In 2 weeks 57 people filled out our survey. Thank you all. 14 of the… -
Updated a handbook page on Make WordPress Accessible.
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Updated a handbook page on Make WordPress Accessible.
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Wrote a new post, Survey: Which WP accessibility documentation do you need?, on the site Make WordPress Accessible:
As you probably already know, we will be working on the documentation on accessibility in… -
Wrote a new post, Start project “Accessibility documentation” on WordCamp Europe 2025., on the site Make WordPress Accessible:
The current documentation in our Accessibility Handbook needs to be improved on. We are going… -
Updated a handbook page on Make WordPress Accessible.
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Confirmed as a speaker for WordCamp Europe 2024
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Mentioned in [56654] on WordPress SVN:
Login and Registration: Improve HTML for errors and notices. -
Confirmed as a speaker for WordCamp Netherlands 2023
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Mentioned in [55971] on WordPress SVN:
Administration: Set accessible state for list table headers. -
Mentioned in [55933] on WordPress SVN:
Upgrade/Install: Log in link should look like a link. -
Confirmed as a speaker for WordCamp Europe 2023
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Confirmed as a speaker for WordCamp Netherlands 2022
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Mentioned in [53041] on WordPress SVN:
Login and Registration: Add autocomplete attributes. -
Posted a reply to Comment Form Accessibility Compliance, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Actually, it's not a false positive, the textarea needs an accessible name to pass validation.… -
Mentioned in [52029] on WordPress SVN:
Comments: Mark comment text field as required. -
Mentioned in [50802] on WordPress SVN:
Twenty Twenty-One: Display page title as the H1 heading when a static page is selected as the "Posts page". -
Created ticket #52938 on Core Trac:
Twenty Twenty-One: H1 is misplaced for a page set as blogpost container -
Created a topic, There is no such thing as a quick accessibility fix, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
There is no such thing as a quick fix (one plugin to f… -
Mentioned in [49961] on WordPress SVN:
Administration: Update hover and focus states in admin menu. -
Wrote a comment on the post Overlijden David de Boer, on the site Nederlands:
Beste Femke, Wat een verdrietig nieuws. Ik herinner me David als een vriendelijk en enthousiast,… -
Mentioned in [48304] on WordPress SVN:
Login and Registration: Hide the login form on the "check your email" step of new user registration or password reset. -
Mentioned in [48039] on WordPress SVN:
Accessibility: Themes: Don't link to the home page in `get_custom_logo()` when it's displayed on the home page. -
Confirmed as a speaker for WordCamp Utrecht 2018
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Confirmed as a speaker for WordCamp Nijmegen 2019
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Confirmed as a speaker for WordCamp Osnabrück 2019
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Wrote a new post, Repost: Takeaways from the WordCamp US Accessibility Hackathon, by Deque, on the site Make WordPress Accessible:
https://www.deque.com/blog/wordpress-wcus-accessibility-hackathon/ -
Mentioned in [43984] on WordPress SVN:
KSES: Add selected ARIA attributes support. -
Wrote a new post, Plans for the Hackathon with Deque at the WCUS Contributor day, on the site Make WordPress Accessible:
Deque Systems will join WordPress core developers to set up automated accessibility testing for WordPress,… -
Mentioned in [43815] on WordPress SVN:
Editor: Minor bug fixes. -
Mentioned in [43731] on WordPress SVN:
KSES: Add selected ARIA attributes support. -
Wrote a new post, I have resigned as the WordPress accessibility team lead. Here is why, on the site Make WordPress Accessible:
https://rianrietveld.com/2018/10/09/i-have-resigned-the-wordpress-accessibility-team/ -
Mentioned in [11905] on BuddyPress SVN:
Templates, xprofile: fix markup a11y for date field type labels. -
Mentioned in [42793] on WordPress SVN:
Accessibility: Networks and Sites: mark the New Site required form fields as required. -
Closed ticket #38606 on Core Trac:
Accessibility: required fields in login/register/password-reset forms
Developer
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Genesis Accessible
Active Installs: 500+
Contributor
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".screen-reader-text" theme support
Active Installs: 20+
Nederlands (Dutch) Plugins Translation Editor - #nl_NL
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Genesis Accessible
Active Installs: 500+
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WP Accessibility
Active Installs: 50,000+