McCausland previously turned the BBC show down, but has been one of the stars of this year’s series.
Rashmi Becker, who founded Step Change Studios to improve dance accessibility, with her blind and partially sighted-students recently taking part in a dance competition in Blackpool, said McCausland is “challenging many perceptions”.
Ms Becker, who is a guardian for her older brother who has sight loss and autism, hopes society gets to a stage where “it isn’t so remarkable to see blind people doing the things that people do, like dancing, and enjoying the things that the rest of us can”.
Debbie Miller, of the Royal National Institute of Blind People (RNIB), said the blackout moment was “incredibly moving”.
“It helped draw people’s attention to what it can be like to not be able to see, and underlined what Chris has said about the need to go beyond our comfort zones and see what we can achieve,” she said.