Rachel Cherry
Director Of Technology And Board Member at WPCampus
City of Rochester, New York, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolRachel Cherry is a web engineer and accessibility specialist with over a decade of experience building inclusive, high-performance front-end experiences for higher education and enterprise organizations. She currently leads digital accessibility at the University of Rochester while running freelance engagements and serving as Director of Technology at Equal Made, combining hands-on remediation with institutional compliance strategy. Rachel founded WPCampus and led the community through a governance transition, fundraising and commissioning the only accessibility audit of WordPress core—an initiative that underscores her influence on open-source accessibility. Her technical work spans HTML, CSS, JavaScript, WordPress, Node.js and Svelte, with practical contributions to projects like the wprig theme to improve keyboard navigation, contrast, and mobile accessibility. Known for translating accessibility policy into developer-facing solutions, she mentors teams to make content creators and products more equitable and sustainable. Based in Rochester, NY, she brings a rare blend of volunteer-driven community leadership and enterprise-level engineering discipline.
12 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
BS, Computer Science, BS, Computer Science at Samford UniversityBA, Graphic Design, Computer Science, BA, Graphic Design, Computer Science at The University of Alabama
English
Github Skills (7)
accessibility10
css10
javascript10
wordpress9
responsive-design8
performance-analysis7
performance-monitor7
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
wprig/wprig
May 2018 - Aug 2020
A progressive theme development rig for WordPress.
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:2 releases, 53 commits, 53 PRs in 2 years 3 months
Contributions summary:Rachel primarily focused on enhancing the accessibility and user experience of the WordPress theme. Their contributions include increasing color contrast for better readability, optimizing the main menu with keyboard navigation, and ensuring the mobile menu is accessible. They also addressed a bug related to the global template variable and made general improvements to the code's structure, specifically for the navigation system.
rigwordpresswordpress-themeprogressiveperformance
higheredwebsocial/mastodon
Nov 2022 - Mar 2025
Your self-hosted, globally interconnected microblogging community
Contributions:12 PRs, 15 pushes, 14 branches in 2 years 3 months
pixelfedhostedsharingdiasporafederation
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