What did you think? What were potential accessibility issues? How would you change it?

I think that the OXO angled measuring cup was a really great example of people working to help others solve problems.  The fact that this was created because of the desire to help a wife who had difficulty holding things due to arthritis.  It's something that I had not known, but I think it goes to show you how creative thinking and ingenuity are what drives real and powerful change.  As educators this change will only occur if we continue to identify student needs and work to design curriculum, materials and assessments that can help to meet these needs.  The pressure that teachers face is immense, and can sometimes feel overwhelming, but instead of feeling like we are never able to do enough, we have to remind ourselves that we are doing what we can and will continue to work towards figuring out how to reach all students.  

As a teacher I sometimes find myself feeling frustrated when I make a change or introduce a new support that works because I tend to wish I had known or thought to use it much earlier.  How do we as teachers continue to push ourselves to developing supports using UDL principles, without becoming too focused on the problems that we are trying to solve?  How are teachers sharing the solutions that they have found to be successful?  How do we limit the time spent 'experimenting' while finding solutions or limit the number of errors we make before finding success?  

I can't imagine anyone not supporting Universal Design principles, but I still question my own personal success in using these principles in developing my classroom lessons and materials.  I do believe that these principles can guide effective, good teaching, and will continue to strive to make the content and assessments in my classroom accessible to all students.  I do think that this is going to be a goal that I am striving towards for the rest of my career and I am trying to balance the urgency of needing to meet the needs of all of my students and the reality that I will still be working towards this indefinitely.