PGP / SPD My story:

Rest in Peace my 6.1k hard earned Facebook profile and pages... I will rebuild from scratch because I'm rebuilding from experience. http://www.facebook.com/SarahWingfield013 I hope I get access to my profiles back but if not, this is my socials for the moment and I send everyone lots of love and life is full of chaos and setbacks - how we handle these is all that counts! 💪🏻❤️ Together we are stronger! Sarah xoxo 

 AI significantly improves accessibility by removing barriers for disabled individuals across many aspects of daily life. Here's how: 🔊 1. Speech Recognition & Voice Assistants Who it helps: People with mobility impairments, visual impairments, or limited use of hands. How it works: AI-powered tools like Siri, Google Assistant, and Alexa let users control devices, send messages, and search the web using their voice. 👁️ 2. Computer Vision & Image Descriptions Who it helps: Blind or visually impaired people. How it works: AI can describe images aloud, read text in images (OCR), and even recognize objects or people. Example: Microsoft’s Seeing AI app. 👂 3. Automated Captions & Transcription Who it helps: Deaf and hard-of-hearing individuals. How it works: Real-time captioning in Zoom, YouTube, or Google Meet uses AI to convert speech to text. AI transcription apps (like Otter.ai) provide readable records of conversations. 🧠 4. Text Prediction & Readability Tools Wh...

I have some exciting news!  My art piece Feminist Angel '24 was accepted into publication by a disability positive neurodivergent organisation! I'll share the piece when it is published! Here's the art piece itself to enjoy meanwhile: Sarah Wingfield  Independent Disability Advocate  Artist/Blogger/Author/Actress+ #disabilitysupport #disabilityinclusion #publication #art

I got a ticket for the not dead yet event but incase I can't make it here's my contribution: I can share it on socials too. ----- Not Dead Yet by Sarah Wingfield Author, Independent Disability Advocate. Not dead yet — But I’ve wanted to die. Wished for comas. Whispered quiet goodbyes. I'm disabled, you see. In agony. Constantly. Pain — chronically. But my disability You can’t see. It's invisible to the naked eye, Hidden deep within me. Don’t mistake me. Don’t forsake me. Don’t throw me away. Don’t silence me. I'm an advocate. A warrior. A mother. A conjurer — Who actions positive change. Don’t abandon me. Don’t quit on me — Especially on the days I seem estranged. Not dead yet — Just trying to survive. Trying to change the world. Trying to thrive. Not dead yet — But told I should have been. A burden on society — The internal screams. I was hidden away. Bedridden decay. Abandoned by the system. But I fought my way Out of there. Not dead yet — But could’ve been convin...

She’s Been Sad for Too Long — Now She Fights ~There is still plenty to be done and plenty to appreciate, when you're naturally a powerful voice~ ❤️ She’s been sad for too long. Pushed to the sidelines. Talked over. Misunderstood. Silenced. Not because she was wrong. But because she was right in a world that would rather bury the truth than be accountable to it. She is disabled. She is autistic. She is tired. But not done. The systems failed her. The support services promised help, but quietly withdrew when it became politically inconvenient. The same people who said they stood for equality, backed off the minute her story became too “controversial” for comfort. She was ostracised, cast out of her own community, ridiculed by strangers who had never lived a day in her body. And worst of all, punished for being visible. They treated her like a threat when all she wanted was understanding. They treated her like a problem to solve, rather than a person to support. But she’s not here to ...

When You’re Disabled, You Feel… Worthless Being disabled in this society often means being made to feel worthless. Useless. Like your existence is a burden. It’s not a feeling that appears out of nowhere — it’s internalised ableism, built from years of being treated as “less than.” You’re taught that your disability is a personal failure rather than a systemic issue. I live with this every day. I have skills. I contribute constantly through unpaid advocacy and awareness work. But I still feel like a burden, because society doesn’t value that work unless it’s paid. And when you're disabled, finding paid work is made needlessly harder — not because we’re not capable, but because we’re judged differently. I recently recorded a podcast with an employment support organisation, using my lived experience to help others. It was meaningful. But because they’re funded by Durham County Council, the episode was removed after a complaint — not about anything I said, but about how I manage my ow...