Blind Abilities Podcast

Tech Has the Power to Change Lives, Especially People with Disabilities – Meet Kiran Kaja: Google's Accessibility Lead for Search, Assistant and News

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Kiran Kaja is the Accessibility Lead for Search, Assistant and News at Google. Kiran joins Jeff Thompson in the Blind Abilities Studio for a conversation about Kiran’s journey from a bleak outlook for education to his jobs that led him around the world and to Google. It is not by chance that Kiran made it to where he is today, he followed his passion and is excited each day that he gets to make possibilities come true through the work he does at Google. Kiran started coding and pivoted from his college degree and sought out his passion for accessibility and working to make software and hardware be useful and accessible for people with disabilities. Kiran is Blind and understands access to technology is not just about us in the Blindness community, he strives to make accessibility benefit all people facing the challenges brought on by a disability. Kiran’s team works with teams across the board at Google to help make the Google experience the best it can be, building access into the products from the beginnin