Home Depot Customers Don't Need To File A Claim To Benefit From This $65K Settlement

In October 2025, a civil rights settlement was preliminarily approved against Home Depot, in favor of those with disabilities. The class-action lawsuit against Home Depot was brought by blind and visually impaired plaintiffs, and all potentially impacted Home Depot shoppers can benefit from the $65,000 settlement without filing any sort of claim. This is because, rather than making a large payment that would be split across many claimants, the agreement instead mandates that Home Depot must make their check-out systems — company wide — accessible to those with visual impairments.

The case against Home Depot was brought by Julie Dalton on behalf of all of those who are blind and visually impaired, and who rely on accessibility devices to interpret written screens. Home Depot does not currently provide screen readers or assistive communication for those with blind or impaired vision — something that could be a violation of ​​the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA). This inaccessibility directly impacts blind and visually impaired shoppers by making their point-of-sale purchases difficult, and the cash-back feature impossible to use without asking others for help. While there are certainly great tricks to save money at Home Depot, asking a stranger for help with cash back is not one of them. While Home Depot has denied they are in violation of the ADA, thanks to the October agreement they will now provide updated payment terminals with appropriate audio readout options and tactile keyboards immediately — or at least within four years.

A class-action lawsuit can often mean a large payout, split into the tiniest of fragments for all of the plaintiffs in the case. However, in this particular Home Depot settlement, the $65,000 will actually cover legal fees, minus $1,000 which will be paid to Julie Dalton, the representative of the affected class. While $65,000 may seem like a tiny sum to solve such a big problem, its worth noting this case is only one of many that Home Depot is currently handling.

Home Depot also owes $65,000 to a former employee that endured sexual harassment at work. Meanwhile, an August 2025 class-action lawsuit brought against Home Depot alleges the company illegally used facial recognition technology to steal facial biometric data. To add on, in September 2024 courts ruled that Home Depot must pay a $2 million settlement due to consistently overcharging customers at the register.

Of course, these amounts are all peanuts in comparison to Home Depot's earnings — for instance those who invested in Home Depot 10 years ago would see major earnings today. When it comes to these kinds of settlements, it can often seem like if a business can pay the fine, they can do the crime. Even Amazon Prime's $2.5 billion settlement and Meta's biggest settlements of all time amount to just a tiny financial drop in a very large bucket. With that said, it may take continual "small" settlements like these in order to compel such a large company to build a better future.