Accessible websites, built fast.
For organizations and teams without an in-house developer.
From campaign and civic sites to art and music sites: one standard of quality, whatever the subject.
Services
Full website builds
For campaigns, civic and nonprofit organizations, artists and bands, small businesses, and independent professionals who need a real site built fast, with no in-house developer required.
Accessibility audits & remediation
WCAG-grounded reviews of existing sites, with concrete, prioritized fixes instead of a compliance checklist.
Rush builds
For when the deadline is the real constraint, not the budget.
Case Study: Yes on 555 Kelly
Visit voteyeson555kelly.com
Half Moon Bay's Yes on 555 Kelly campaign needed a website to support a November ballot measure — Measure Q, ratifying a 40-unit affordable housing development for senior farmworkers. They had no site, no budget for a web agency, and no in-house technical staff. Just a handful of volunteers holding a scattered pile of source material: a filed ballot argument, two separately-written FAQ documents, a talking-points deck, architectural drawings, and photos — none of it organized, none of it web-ready.
New Worlds built the site from that material in about ten days, ahead of a hard, immovable election deadline.
How it worked
Every change went to a private draft link before it went live
Copy, layout, images — nothing reached the public site without an explicit stakeholder go-ahead, including one-line text fixes. Zero unreviewed content ever went live, for the entire project.
Accessibility was built in from day one, not bolted on at the end
Semantic structure, real alt text on every image, verified color contrast, visible focus states, and full keyboard navigation shipped with the first draft, not a last-minute pass.
Owned the whole stack
Domains, DNS, SSL, hosting, a private code repository, search engine indexing, and privacy-conscious analytics — so nothing depended on a single login or a single laptop.
Verified claims instead of trusting them
When a stakeholder's message pointed toward a second domain, it got checked independently before touching anything — catching that it actually pointed to an unrelated, broken site with no connection to the campaign, before that mistake could reach voters.
Result: the site launched ahead of the ballot deadline, met every stakeholder objective, and never had a single piece of unreviewed content reach the public page.
"I am constantly getting praise for our website 555Kelly.com. Joel McKinnon built it incredibly fast and it looks brilliant! I highly recommend New Worlds."
— Harvey Rarback, Former Mayor of Half Moon Bay
Since launch: the campaign requested full Spanish-language translation across every section, with a language switcher — approved and live, extending the site's reach to the community it's built for.
Case Study: The Jupiter Sheep
Visit jupitersheep.com
The Jupiter Sheep were a Sacramento band, active from 1988 to 1994. What survived was an aging website and a pile of analog history: cassette recordings, live video, flyers, handbills, press clippings, and photos, scattered across drives, closets, and old accounts.
New Worlds turned that material into a living archive: every recording playable, the story told, the ephemera preserved, and the site built to be read and heard by everyone.
How it worked
A different kind of site, the same accessibility standard
Music players, a photo gallery with a slideshow, and embedded video, all fully keyboard operable, with real alt text and verified color contrast. Motion respects each visitor's reduced-motion setting.
Every recording, gathered and cataloged
More than 200 tape recordings were inventoried, checked for duplicates, and organized into albums and 84 songs, so nothing was left off the site by accident.
The original site was preserved, not erased
The band's 2018 site lives on as an archive, restored and linked from the new one, so the history of the history is kept too.
Designed, not templated
Several visual directions were built and compared before one was chosen and refined, down to a header mark traced from the band's own sticker.
Result: a new home for the band's music and story, live on its own domain, moved off legacy hosting onto fast, inexpensive infrastructure that New Worlds set up, with a plain-language guide for making routine edits without a developer.
Why New Worlds
Delivered under a deadline that couldn't move
The first one was an election date. The same discipline applies whatever yours is.
Accessibility is standard, not an add-on
Every project ships with semantic structure, real alt text, and verified contrast and keyboard navigation from the first draft.
You'll never see something wrong on the live site
Every change goes to a private review link first — no exceptions, no matter how small the edit.
Owned the infrastructure, not just the design
Domains, DNS, hosting, and search visibility are handled end-to-end.
About
Joel McKinnon is founder and owner of New Worlds. He has more than twenty years of front-end development experience — HTML/CSS/JS, Vue, React — across organizations including Apple (5 years) and OptumRx (2 years), with engagements at NASA, Adobe, eBay, Wells Fargo, and CVS Health, plus several early-stage startups in digital education and data center asset management.
His last several years have focused specifically on web accessibility: CPWA-certified (2019–2023) and a member of the International Association of Accessibility Professionals (IAAP).
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