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Helen Hou-Sandi

Staff Software Engineering Manager, Accessibility at GitHub

@helen NYC joined Sep 2009

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    Bio

    I’m the Staff Software Engineering Manager for Accessibility at GitHub and a Lead Developer for the WordPress project. Previously the Director of Open Source Initiatives at 10up.

    Interests

    Cooking, open source, new music (as in contemporary classical), old school and third coast hip hop

    Badges

    CODE
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    Core Contributor '15 Core Team '14 Meta Contributor '15 Plugin Developer
    CONTENT
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    Documentation Contributor '16
    COMMUNITY
    2 badges
    bbPress Contributor '19 WordCamp Speaker '14

    Current Job

    Staff Software Engineering Manager, Accessibility
    Present
    GitHub

    Recent impact

    Score weights high-impact work (commits, releases, approved translations, props) at 3x routine activity.

    Last 30 days
    1contribution
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    score1
    Last 90 days
    3contributions
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    medium3
    score3
    Last 12 months
    5contributions
    high2
    medium3
    score9

    Team focus

    Share of contributions across teams during the last 365 days

    WordPress releases

    Contributed to 35 releases
    • 7.0
    • 6.9
    • 6.8
    • 6.7
    • 6.5
    • 6.4
    • 6.3
    • 6.2
    • 6.1
    • 6.0
    • 5.8
    • 5.7
    • 5.6
    • 5.5
    • 5.3
    • 5.1
    • 5.0
    • 4.9
    • 4.8
    • 4.7
    • 4.6
    • 4.5
    • 4.4
    • 4.3
    • 4.2
    • 4.1
    • 4.0
    • 3.9
    • 3.8
    • 3.7
    • 3.6
    • 3.5
    • 3.4
    • 3.3
    • 3.2

    Contributions

    Type
    September 2026
    Sep 05 Sat · 20:32
    Meta med
    Wrote a comment on the post Accessibility-ready Theme Reviews: Extending the Deadline, on the site Make WordPress Accessible:
    I don't know if it's me or something up with the comment box but I…
    August 2026
    Aug 19 Wed · 21:07
    GitHub med
    Created issue #823 in the WordPress/wordpress.org repository:
    Missing labels for some form elements in wp-themes.com default demo content
    Aug 19 Wed · 18:44
    Meta med
    Wrote a comment on the post Accessibility-ready Theme Reviews: Extending the Deadline, on the site Make WordPress Accessible:
    I know I'm not super active these days so please also read this comment as…
    December 2025
    Dec 08 Mon · 21:53
    Core high
    Mentioned in [61360] on WordPress SVN:
    Posts, Post Types: Only set default title for custom post types if they have title support.
    September 2025
    Sep 23 Tue · 03:34
    Core high
    Mentioned in [60793] on WordPress SVN:
    Charset: Improve UTF-8 scrubbing ability via new UTF-8 scanning pipeline.
    August 2025
    Aug 27 Wed · 15:13
    Core med
    Closed ticket #63120 on Core Trac:
    Emojis in plugin titles render in front of text characters
    Aug 27 Wed · 15:13
    Core high
    Committed [60683] to WordPress SVN:
    Updates: Ensure theme screenshots are positioned correctly.
    Aug 27 Wed · 00:02
    Core med
    Closed ticket #63120 on Core Trac:
    Emojis in plugin titles render in front of text characters
    Aug 27 Wed · 00:01
    Core high
    Committed [60680] to WordPress SVN:
    Plugins: Ensure only plugin icons are floated.
    January 2025
    Jan 22 Wed · 23:29
    Core high
    Mentioned in [59691] on WordPress SVN:
    Docs: Clarify the purpose of post date/time functions.

    Developer

    7 plugins

    Contributor

    7 plugins

    Plugins

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