<div dir="ltr">Is it worth creating an account through ID.me itself as a way to try to forego the variants of IRS and so forth? I hadn't tried using it for IRS but vaguely remember it cropping up for things like LinkedIn.<div><br></div><div>Joe</div><div><br></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote gmail_quote_container"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Fri, Aug 28, 2026 at 2:15\u202fPM Jim Barbour via NFBCS <<a href="mailto:nfbcs@nfbnet.org">nfbcs@nfbnet.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="auto"><div dir="ltr"></div><div dir="ltr">One other thing I forgot to mention. The process that Curtis and I went through is specifically for the IRS. Different parts of ID me will have their own process and I have no idea what that process is.</div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr">Good luck,</div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr">Jim</div><div dir="ltr"><br><blockquote type="cite">On Aug 28, 2026, at 1:06\u202fPM, Jim Barbour <<a href="mailto:jbar@barcore.com" target="_blank">jbar@barcore.com</a>> wrote:<br><br></blockquote></div><blockquote type="cite"><div dir="ltr">\ufeff<div dir="ltr"></div><div dir="ltr">Hey everybody,</div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr">I just went through this process today. It was quite painful. I did as Courtis suggested and selected the do it through the video call option. This will eventually result in a video call via Google meet. The other thing that Curtis suggested is also important and easy to miss. Do all of this from your smartphone. The website will allow you to begin from your computer, but you\u2019ll find that it gets messy and annoying and almost impossible to finish if you don\u2019t do it all from your phone.</div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr">I will also say that the picture taking process was pretty difficult. I wound up letting a picture go through that the website said was blurry. That turned out to be OK.</div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr">All I can say is I got it done, used some residual vision to do it, and found the process tedious and rather difficult. There is no one part of the process I can point to and say this cannot be done without vision, but it\u2019s all tedious and requires patience and persistence.</div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr">Good luck,</div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr">Jim.</div><div dir="ltr"><br><blockquote type="cite">On Aug 25, 2026, at 6:27\u202fPM, Bryan via NFBCS <<a href="mailto:nfbcs@nfbnet.org" target="_blank">nfbcs@nfbnet.org</a>> wrote:<br><br></blockquote></div><blockquote type="cite"><div dir="ltr">\ufeff<div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11pt">Hi,<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11pt"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11pt">If you can\u2019t get it done, you can call 844-545-5640 to get an appointment at your local irs office.<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11pt">Bryan<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11pt"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11pt"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><div><div style="border-width:1pt medium medium;border-style:solid none none;border-color:rgb(225,225,225) currentcolor currentcolor;padding:3pt 0in 0in"><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:11pt">From:</span></b><span style="font-size:11pt"> NFBCS <<a href="mailto:nfbcs-bounces@nfbnet.org" target="_blank">nfbcs-bounces@nfbnet.org</a>> <b>On Behalf Of </b>Tracy Carcione via NFBCS<br><b>Sent:</b> Tuesday, August 25, 2026 8:26 AM<br><b>To:</b> 'NFB in Computer Science Mailing List' <<a href="mailto:nfbcs@nfbnet.org" target="_blank">nfbcs@nfbnet.org</a>><br><b>Cc:</b> <a href="mailto:carcione@access.net" target="_blank">carcione@access.net</a><br><b>Subject:</b> [NFBCS] ID.me<u></u><u></u></span></p></div></div><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11pt">I am trying to get an account on ID.me so I can deal with various government agencies. It requires me to take pictures of the front and back of my non-driver ID using a link they will send to my phone.<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11pt">How can I do that? Do I need to hunt up a sighted person? I hate to bother my neighbors for stuff like this. Is there a way to do this on my own?<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11pt">I have AIRA, but I don\u2019t think they can be on the phone and see what\u2019s on another link on my phone.<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11pt">Help!<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11pt"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11pt">This is not what I call accessible, as a government site is required to be.<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11pt">Tracy<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11pt"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11pt"><u></u> <u></u></span></p></div><span>_______________________________________________</span><br><span>NFBCS mailing list</span><br><span><a href="mailto:NFBCS@nfbnet.org" target="_blank">NFBCS@nfbnet.org</a></span><br><span><a href="http://nfbnet.org/mailman/listinfo/nfbcs_nfbnet.org" target="_blank">http://nfbnet.org/mailman/listinfo/nfbcs_nfbnet.org</a></span><br><span>To unsubscribe, change your list options or get your account info for NFBCS:</span><br><span><a href="http://nfbnet.org/mailman/options/nfbcs_nfbnet.org/jbar%40barcore.com" target="_blank">http://nfbnet.org/mailman/options/nfbcs_nfbnet.org/jbar%40barcore.com</a></span><br></div></blockquote></div></blockquote></div>_______________________________________________<br>
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