Universal Design Interface Standards

Essential to the ability of people to come up to universally designed products and know how to operate them is the existence of interface standards. Work is currently under way in a number of areas to ensure that people:

1. Know what to do to operate products they encounter;
2. Are able to connect any assistive technologies they may have with them to the products they encounter.
   

Standards and resources currently under development:

• V2 Support Project at Trace - Toward an Alternate User Interface Standard - V2 is a technical committee of the National Committee for Information Technology Standards. It is charged with developing national standards for Information Technology Access Interfaces including the Alternative Interface Access Protocol (AIAP).
• GIDEI (General Input Device Emulating Interface) Standard - The General Input Device Emulating Interface (GIDEI) Proposal defines a connection and data communication protocol between alternate input devices (e.g., augmentative and alternative communication [AAC] devices) and interfaces which emulate standard computer input devices.

Past Projects and Standards:

• The Universal Remote Console Communication (URCC) Protocol - An archived project that has been merged with other work to become the V2 and AIAP work above.
  
• (Infrared) Universal Auxiliary Interface Standard (the UAI Protocol) - Predecessor to URCC Protocol that focuses on early work toward building everyone interfaces.