"These standards are to help people make their information easy to read and understand. We have made these standards as part of a project that took place in Europe. People from 8 European countries met several times to write these standards. The project which brought these people together was called “Pathways to adult education for people with intellectual disabilities”. Adult education is also called lifelong learning. Lifelong learning programmes are courses where adults can learn new things. At the moment, lifelong learning programmes are often hard for people with intellectual disabilities to take part in. The aim of this project is to make lifelong learning programmes easier for people with intellectual disabilities to take part in." (Page 5)