What do we mean when we talk about web accessibility? Well, in very simple terms, we mean a web that is accessible to everyone, regardless of their situation.
Rather than creating a separate site for each, why not create a single site which caters for the needs of everyone? Using web standards set out by the W3C, accessibility for the masses (everyone) is now a reality.
Web standards arose out of the chaos that existed during the early years of the WWW and the subsequent need to standardise web authoring in order to gain some sort of consistency for web designers and authors alike. The W3C started producing recommendations in 1996 and a group of web designers called the Web Standards Project (WaSP) started to work with these recommendations. This meant that web designers were gradually able to create web pages which would render reasonably consistently, independent of the particular browser or operating system.
By employing web standards and proper coding practices, we can build a web that is both accessible and visually appealing.