3.2 Supporting people with disabilities to access information and bring about change Ukraine has been party to the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities since 2010, and in May 2019, ODIHR and the National Assembly of Persons with Disabilities of Ukraine organized training on easy-to-read methodology to help people with disabilities access information and therefore bring about change. Putting information into easy-to-read format is a tool to make language more accessible, in particular for people with intellectual disabilities. By introducing this methodology and helping to adapt materials to meet the needs of a broader range of people, ODIHR helped to strengthen public participation in Ukraine of people with disabilities. Training participants noted that there are very few opportunities for engaging people with intellectual disabilities in public discourse, and formulated detailed action plans to share the knowledge more broadly and advocate for public documents to be made available in accessible formats. 48 DEMOCRACY AND HUMAN RIGHTS IN THE OSCE ODIHR will continue to develop easy-to-read materials on a range of public participation topics, building on the manual Helping People with Disabilities to take part in Politics: Easy-to-Understand Information, which was published in 2019 in both English and Russian. This aims to create an enabling political environment not only for people with intellectual disabilities but also for communities who find themselves socially excluded because of language barriers.