Karan Nagrani
That Blind Guy | Disability Advocate | Keynote Speaker | Visionary Voice in Accessibility & Inclusion
A blind accessibility advocate, speaker, and content creator best known as That Blind Guy. Drawing on lived experience, humour, and straight-talk education, Karan challenges misconceptions about blindness and disability while helping organisations move beyond compliance toward genuine inclusion.
After losing his sight, Karan rebuilt his life by mastering independence, adaptive technology, and accessible design. Today, he works with businesses, educators, developers, and leaders to improve accessibility, usability, and awareness, showing how inclusive environments benefit everyone, not just people with disabilities.
Karan’s talks are engaging, practical, and deeply human. He translates complex accessibility concepts into real-world understanding, empowering audiences to rethink assumptions, design better systems, and create spaces where people of all abilities can participate fully, confidently, and with dignity.
Topics
Talking Points
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Blindness & low-vision: what people get wrong
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Disability inclusion beyond compliance
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Accessibility in workplaces & digital spaces
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Identity, visibility & being seen when you’re blind
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LGBTQIA+ lived experience & intersectionality
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Using humour to dismantle stigma
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From awareness to action: inclusive culture that sticks
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Why accessibility fails when it’s treated as compliance instead of design
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What people misunderstand about blindness and why those assumptions cause exclusion
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The difference between being included and actually belonging
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How “good intentions” still create inaccessible workplaces and systems
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Why inspiration stories about disability do more harm than good
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Accessibility as a leadership responsibility, not a DEI side project
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How humour disarms discomfort and opens honest conversations about disability
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Being blind in a sight-obsessed world, and what that reveals about culture
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Why accessibility improves experiences for everyone, not just disabled people
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Moving organisations from awareness to action in accessibility and inclusion
That Blind Guy
Disability Advocate
Keynote Speaker
Visionary Voice in Accessibility & Inclusion
About Karan
A blind disability advocate, keynote speaker, and the voice behind That Blind Guy™. Known for his sharp wit and unfiltered honesty, Karan challenges how society, workplaces, and institutions think about accessibility and inclusion. Rather than leaning on inspiration or sympathy, he uses lived experience, humour, and straight-talk to expose the everyday assumptions that quietly exclude people with disability.
As a speaker, Karan reframes accessibility as intentional design and leadership responsibility, not a compliance task or a tick-box exercise. His work invites audiences to move beyond awareness into action, questioning how language, systems, and culture are built by default for some and not for others.
Karan’s perspective is both deeply human and strategically relevant, making his message resonate across corporate, government, and community audiences. Whether on stage or in conversation, he leaves people thinking differently about disability, not as limitation, but as insight that can shape more inclusive, thoughtful, and effective environments for everyone.