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The first projects of the technical committee have been to develop standards for a Universal Remote Console (URC). This family of standards complements and builds on industry activity in home networking, wireless networking, consumer electronics control and integration, and metadata registries for discovery and interoperation of devices. One of our aims is to make it easier to fulfill the alternate interface connection needs of people with disabilities that are called for in recent government regulations, such as Section 255 of the Telecommunications Act and Section 508 of the Rehabilitation Act. The Universal Remote Console specification and related standards will enable IT products and services to be more accommodating of the needs and preferences of the consumer by allowing for alternative user interfaces. While addressing the special needs of people with disabilities, the option to change interfaces will have a broader market application. Indeed we believe that these standards will revolutionize how we all, throughout the world, interact with electronics and information technology (E & IT) in the near future.