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

  • Blindness & low-vision: what people get wrong

  • Disability inclusion beyond compliance

  • Accessibility in workplaces & digital spaces

  • Identity, visibility & being seen when you’re blind

  • LGBTQIA+ lived experience & intersectionality

  • Using humour to dismantle stigma

  • From awareness to action: inclusive culture that sticks

  • Why accessibility fails when it’s treated as compliance instead of design

  • What people misunderstand about blindness and why those assumptions cause exclusion

  • The difference between being included and actually belonging

  • How “good intentions” still create inaccessible workplaces and systems

  • Why inspiration stories about disability do more harm than good

  • Accessibility as a leadership responsibility, not a DEI side project

  • How humour disarms discomfort and opens honest conversations about disability

  • Being blind in a sight-obsessed world, and what that reveals about culture

  • Why accessibility improves experiences for everyone, not just disabled people

  • Moving organisations from awareness to action in accessibility and inclusion

What People Say About Karan

CANVA

 “Karan’s session with us instantly impacted the perception and empathy we hold for those living with impaired vision. He’s able to clearly explain the impact of Usher Syndrome on his life in a passionate, warm and witty style that won over many hearts and minds at Canva. His direct challenge for us to more fully design Canva for disabilities continues to positively reverberate through our teams.” 

VISION 2020

 “We were delighted to have Karan present at our annual event at Parliament House, Canberra with the Hon. Bill Shorten and Chris Pyne in attendance. Karan shared his own lived experience with vision loss and disability in a humorous and witty way. He challenged stereotypes and spoke of the importance of empathy and inclusivity. Karan’s ability to speak openly and honestly about his personal experiences make him a great advocate for people with vision loss and disability.”

TOP END PRIDE

” Top End Pride were very proud and humbled to have Karan as our 2024 Darwin Pride Ambassador. Karan’s story and passion to shine a light on disability within our community really came through. He spoke at our Launch, our Business Networking event, our Educational Forums and at the start of our parade and the feedback we received has been phenomenal. We want to Thank Karan for being our ambassador and for shining a light on such an important topic.”

CHARLES DARWIN UNIVERSITY

” We had Karan as our Keynote speaker at our Annual Staff Conference in Darwin, NT. He was so inspirational and a fantastic speaker. We were all so impressed with his keynote session and panel session because he delivers with personal story-telling that inspires everyone.”

AIIM CHOICES

 “Karan Nagrani has worked with AIIM Choices as an Ambassador and Speaker role for more than 2 years. In this role Karan has been tasked with promoting AIIM Choices business and its attitude to people with disabilities, especially, those people with vision challenges, primarily through our social media but also in the public arena at expos. Karan, his presence and personality, always enhances the environment with a joyful and positive approach to promote and support the visually impaired and the whole community. The initiative he continually displays, makes life so easy to work with him.” 

AMS

“Karan joined AMS as a speaker to help us celebrate Disability Pride Month for the first time in July 2023. Karan shared an invaluable perspective to help us break down misconceptions about vision loss and promote understanding of disabilities that are less visible to educate our colleagues, highlighting the importance of intersectional experiences. Thank you for sharing your story with us Karan!” 

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.

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