Exercise in Self-Acceptance – Follow these Steps

Instructions: This exercise is designed to help you challenge your belief that, if you have failed at something or if someone criticizes or rejects you, then you are a totally hopeless failure as a person. To overcome this your irrational thinking that leads to low self-acceptance complement the top half of the circle by filling […]

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Becoming Assertive is more than Finding the Right Words to Stay

The foundation for effective assertion is your own thinking. Your thinking can either block you from being assertive or help you become more assertive. When you are in the process of developing a new assertive pattern, you will want to develop new ways of thinking as well as new ways of saying things. Here are […]

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Survival and Happiness for Successful Living

REBT advocates many values for successful living. Here are some of the main ones. The first two are survival and happiness. The others are recognized because we believe they serve to enhance and promote the first two. Survival. We teach people to work for their survival. This includes taking action to preserve and promote good […]

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Zorro: Gestures on Android

Zorro After turning on TalkBack, you can also use Explore by touch, which reads screen elements when you move your finger over them. Faster movements are considered gestures. Explore by touch can only be used with TalkBack. The system prompts you to activate this feature the first time you turn on TalkBack. If you do […]

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How to Register and Edit Maps on the Open Street Map Website

1. Go to the website http://www.openstreetmap.org 2. Follow the link Create an account. 3. Fill in the registration form: e-mail, confirmation e-mail, display name (can be filled in later), password, password confirmation. 4. Register button. 5. On the next page the license agreement is given, you need to check the box “I think …”, click […]

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Ideal Settings for Spiel Screen Reader

Spiel is the most highly configurable screen reader for the Android operating system. However, it does not have official user documentation, which often makes it difficult for beginners to master all its features. Many menu items are accompanied by special prompts, but, as practice shows, they are also not always enough to explain certain settings. Below we […]

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Review of Foreign-Language Speech Synthesizers for Android

A speech synthesizer is the main means of obtaining information about the contents of the screen for a blind computer user, and when there is no alternative in the form of a braille display, it is generally the only one. Due to the fact that support for working with tactile displays in the Android platform is […]

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An Honest Review of Spiel, a Screen Reader for Android

Spiel is an open source screen reader for the Android operating system that runs on a variety of ARM and X86 mobile devices. The name “Spiel” is pronounced roughly like “Spill” and is translated from English as “chatter,” idle talk. The program is distributed on a non-commercial basis under the terms of the free Apache 2.0 license . […]

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Overview of Mobile Accessibility for Android

Mobile Accessibility is a suite of applications from the well-known company Codefactory designed to provide accessibility to devices running the Android operating system for blind and visually impaired users. It should be noted right away that this is an unusual technical solution, since it is not limited to a certain program that works behind the scenes, […]

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