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Friday, October 23, 2026

One product, no leads: EEOC sues Solera for alleged disability discrimination - www.hcamag.com

His colleagues sold the full suite with territories and training. He got cold calls

The EEOC has sued Solera Holdings, alleging it stripped a visually impaired worker's role to almost nothing - then fired him.

The complaint, filed October 20, 2026 in the US District Court for the District of Maryland, tells a story of an employer that allegedly knew about its worker's disability from day one and still managed to get nearly every part of the accommodation process wrong.

The worker has cone rod dystrophy, a degenerative eye disease that substantially limits his ability to see. He started as a solutions advisor at DealerSocket in January 2021, working remotely from his home in Bel Air, Maryland. When Solera Holdings acquired DealerSocket around June 2021, according to the complaint, the company obtained personnel records confirming the worker's vision-based disability and the multi-screen accommodations his previous employer had approved.

For a while, things worked. The complaint alleges the worker successfully performed all essential functions of his role through 2024 with the help of ZoomText, a screen enhancement tool provided by the state of Maryland.

Then his vision got worse.

Around April 2024, the complaint alleges, the worker could no longer see his computer screen well enough to run software demonstrations for potential customers. He told his supervisor and asked for a transfer to a role that did not require live demos. The EEOC alleges the company found him...



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