Andrea Fercia – @afercia

Member Since: January 25th, 2012
Location: Milan, Italy
Website: linkedin.com/in/andreafercia
GitHub: afercia
Job Title: Accessibility specialist
Employer: Yoast
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Bio

I’ve started a bunch of years ago in the pre-gmail era when websites were built with tables for layout purposes, font-size set to 10px and PHP still stood for “Personal Home Page”.

Contributions Sponsored

Andrea Fercia contributes 20 hours per week to the following teams: Accessibility, Core.

Contribution History

Accessibility Contributor
Accessibility Contributor
Accessibility Team
Accessibility Team
Core Contributor
Core Contributor
Core Team
Core Team
Design Contributor
Design Contributor
Documentation Contributor
Documentation Contributor
Meta Contributor
Meta Contributor
Translation Contributor
Translation Contributor
Translation Editor
Translation Editor
WordCamp Organizer
WordCamp Organizer
WordPress.tv Contributor
WordPress.tv Contributor
Plugin Developer
Plugin Developer

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Created a new ticket, #49838, in Core Trac:
Freedoms page: the headings hierarchy skips one level

1 day ago
Reopened ticket #49828, in Core Trac:
Button size is too large under plugin information popup

2 days ago
Created a new ticket, #49704, in Core Trac:
Block editor drop targets not visible when the annotations package is used

2 weeks ago
Wrote a comment on the post Fullscreen mode enabled by default in the editor, on the site Make WordPress Core:
The WordPress accessibility team published a post summarizing their position on the new default full…

2 weeks ago
Closed ticket #49165, in Core Trac:
Alt Text Not Saving Outside of Library

1 month ago
Created a new ticket, #49519, in Core Trac:
Regression: IE11 block editor error when deleting a block using the ...

1 month ago
Created a new ticket, #49517, in Core Trac:
Regression: the block editor toolbar visual order and DOM order mismatch

1 month ago
Reopened ticket #48154, in Core Trac:
Build Tools: Integrate DependencyExtractionWebpackPlugin in the JS build

1 month ago
Wrote a comment on the post Components Maintainers and Gutenberg, on the site Make WordPress Core:
> the aim would be for core and Gutenberg components to merge. Yup, I'd tend…

2 months ago
Committed [47304] to Core Trac:
Accessibility: Improve readability by removing unnecessary italic font ...

2 months ago
Wrote a comment on the post Lazy-Loading Images in WordPress Core, on the site Make WordPress Core:
Update: the loading attribute is now enabled by default in Firefox (merged a few minutes…

2 months ago
Created a new ticket, #49426, in Core Trac:
Site Health: the Rest API test doesn't display the WP_Error code

2 months ago
Wrote a comment on the post An updated Button component in WordPress 5.4, on the site Make WordPress Core:
This came out a bit out of the blue for me and appears to go…

2 months ago
Wrote a comment on the post Proposal: a consistent spacing system for WordPress, on the site Make WordPress Design:
Re-reading this after some time. Regarding the element first / content first approach, the latter…

2 months ago
Wrote a comment on the post Lazy-Loading Images in WordPress Core, on the site Make WordPress Core:
Correct: the "loading" attribute was merged into the WHATWG HTML Living Standard `whatwg:master` a few…

2 months ago
Closed ticket #48378, in Core Trac:
Firefox and Internet Explorer 11: Media modal controls section cut off ...

2 months ago
Wrote a comment on the post Lazy-Loading Images in WordPress Core, on the site Make WordPress Core:
is already supported by several browsers "Several"? 🙂Basically one. At the time of writing this,…

2 months ago
Wrote a comment on the post Proposed JavaScript Coding Standards Revisions for Prettier Compatibility, on the site Make WordPress Core:
Sounds great then. Thanks for clarifying.

4 months ago
Wrote a comment on the post Proposed JavaScript Coding Standards Revisions for Prettier Compatibility, on the site Make WordPress Core:
To my understanding, the proposal to use Prettier applies only to the Gutenberg codebase so…

4 months ago
Wrote a comment on the post New CSS focus in Core, on the site Make WordPress Core:
Also: this plugin was an effort to provide a pattern library / style guide for…

4 months ago
Wrote a comment on the post New CSS focus in Core, on the site Make WordPress Core:
I'm not sure substantial progress was made. Helen's the best person to ask to. Quickly…

4 months ago
Wrote a comment on the post New CSS focus in Core, on the site Make WordPress Core:
Thanks for the post and for taking action! I'd like to suggest to start from…

4 months ago
Wrote a comment on the post Tentative Release Calendar 2020-2021, on the site Make WordPress Core:
If WordPress is going to stick to the legacy release cycle model with a certain…

4 months ago
Wrote a comment on the post 5.3 Retrospective – Call for feedback, on the site Make WordPress Core:
Start: - Announce the release schedule way earlier. This release cycle started on May. The…

5 months ago
Wrote a comment on the post Noteworthy Admin CSS changes in WordPress 5.3, on the site Make WordPress Core:
Thanks all for your feedback and also for the airplane joke :) Any feedback is…

5 months ago
Wrote a comment on the post Noteworthy Admin CSS changes in WordPress 5.3, on the site Make WordPress Core:
@Ihor Vorotnov thanks for your questions (I'm replying here to avoid the comments nesting makes…

5 months ago
Wrote a comment on the post Noteworthy Admin CSS changes in WordPress 5.3, on the site Make WordPress Core:
@Darken-x please refrain from posting 3 comments with the same link to your plugin. That's…

5 months ago
Wrote a comment on the post Noteworthy Admin CSS changes in WordPress 5.3, on the site Make WordPress Core:
@Ihor Vorotnov sure. The W3C Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) are the result of more…

5 months ago
Wrote a comment on the post Noteworthy Admin CSS changes in WordPress 5.3, on the site Make WordPress Core:
👍

5 months ago
Wrote a comment on the post Noteworthy Admin CSS changes in WordPress 5.3, on the site Make WordPress Core:
There are many ways to increase contrast, not only giving a heavy border to every…

5 months ago
Wrote a comment on the post Noteworthy Admin CSS changes in WordPress 5.3, on the site Make WordPress Core:
@DAEXT I'm sorry but this kind of language and tone are not very welcome. Pinging…

5 months ago
Wrote a comment on the post Noteworthy Admin CSS changes in WordPress 5.3, on the site Make WordPress Core:
@micasuh thanks for your feedback. Regarding alignment and sizes, that's something already planned to be…

5 months ago
Wrote a comment on the post Agenda for Accessibility Team Meeting 15 November 2019, on the site Make WordPress Accessible:
I'd agree the design changes to the alternate color schemes need to be refined and…

5 months ago
Wrote a comment on the post Noteworthy Admin CSS changes in WordPress 5.3, on the site Make WordPress Core:
Ugly is how you describe ugly. Especially in design. I'd argue this is a misleading…

5 months ago
Wrote a comment on the post Noteworthy Admin CSS changes in WordPress 5.3, on the site Make WordPress Core:
Where Gutenburg is a step in the right direction, this is one in the wrong.…

5 months ago
Wrote a comment on the post Agenda for Accessibility Team Meeting 15 November 2019, on the site Make WordPress Accessible:
I think we'd need to continue discussing two items raised on the accessibility Slack channel:…

5 months ago
Wrote a comment on the post Noteworthy Admin CSS changes in WordPress 5.3, on the site Make WordPress Core:
> this will help people with disabilities This will help everyone, including the future you…

5 months ago
Wrote a comment on the post Proposal: a consistent spacing system for WordPress, on the site Make WordPress Design:
For what is worth, I fully support the introduction of a 8 pixels-based spacing system.…

5 months ago
Wrote a comment on the post Discussion: Higher contrast form fields and buttons, on the site Make WordPress Design:
Noting that the concerns expressed in these comments happened before the buttons new style proposal…

5 months ago
Wrote a comment on the post Proposal: a consistent type scale for WordPress, on the site Make WordPress Design:
Regarding the italic text used in core for descriptive text, it would be great for…

6 months ago
Wrote a comment on the post Proposal: a consistent type scale for WordPress, on the site Make WordPress Design:
Looking forward to see this happen! The examples of the type scale applied to the…

6 months ago
Wrote a comment on the post Proposal: a consistent type scale for WordPress, on the site Make WordPress Design:
I'd definitely agree there shouldn't be exceptions. Or at least the exceptions should be limited…

6 months ago
Wrote a comment on the post Proposal: a consistent type scale for WordPress, on the site Make WordPress Design:
Sorry, posting a new message only to check the "notify me" checkbox :)

6 months ago
Wrote a comment on the post Proposal: a consistent type scale for WordPress, on the site Make WordPress Design:
I'd totally second this effort at the point I'd like to see a "Typography" core…

6 months ago
Wrote a comment on the post Dev Chat Agenda for October 2nd 2019 (5.3 week 7), on the site Make WordPress Core:
The accessibility team would like to discuss also this ticket: #43037: Login error message "Invalid…

6 months ago
Wrote a comment on the post Dev Chat Agenda for October 2nd 2019 (5.3 week 7), on the site Make WordPress Core:
The accessibility team would like to propose to discuss https://core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/47069 which seems pretty urgent and…

6 months ago
Wrote a comment on the post Defining Content–Block Areas, on the site Make WordPress Core:
> there should still be a primary content block area Of course yes. The main…

7 months ago
Wrote a comment on the post JavaScript chat summary, Sept. 10th, 2019, on the site Make WordPress Core:
WIth regards to the admin-bar jQuery dependency, I updated the Trac ticket https://core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/47069 to point…

7 months ago
Wrote a comment on the post Changes on Twenty Nineteen HTML structure in WordPress 5.3, on the site Make WordPress Core:
@desrosj as noted also on the ticket https://core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/47066 these concerns are shared by everyone. However,…

7 months ago
Wrote a comment on the post Feature Project Proposal: WP Notify, on the site Make WordPress Core:
> I feel like more thought should be put into the UX of this. I'd…

8 months ago