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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">I know you couldn't use login.gov when
I set mine up earlier this year. I still don't think you can...</div>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 8/28/2026 3:47 PM, Sean McMahon via
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<p class="MsoNormal">When I did the ID.ME, they had a video
selfee that you had to take. I couldn\u2019t do it, and I had to
schedule a video call with someone. It took about 3 tries and
hours of waiting with my mobile on before someone got it. I
even had sighted assistance and we still couldn\u2019t figure it
out the selfee portion. I thought you could use login.gov now
instead of ID.ME or am I incorrect? I mention this because I
thought the login.gov account was easier to setup.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Sean</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span>From:</span></b><span> NFBCS
<a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:nfbcs-bounces@nfbnet.org"><nfbcs-bounces@nfbnet.org></a> <b>On Behalf Of </b>Jim
Bauer via NFBCS<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Friday, August 28, 2026 3:51 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:nfbcs@nfbnet.org">nfbcs@nfbnet.org</a><br>
<b>Cc:</b> Jim Bauer <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:holdsworthfan@eml.cc"><holdsworthfan@eml.cc></a><br>
<b>Subject:</b> Re: [NFBCS] ID.me</span></p>
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<p>I had created an id.me account ahead of time and still had to
verify my identity to connect it to the IRS. Although I've
since connected to SSA, Medicare, the treasury and EFTPS
without going through verification again.</p>
<p>When I did the IRS dance (earlier this year) you could still
upload something from your camera roll. I had Aira take front
and back ID photos, then I did the "video call". All on my
phone...My biggest pain was that there was no audio on the
video call. SO I just put each camera at about arm's length in
front of my face for a count of 8 seconds or so, then slowly
moved the phone up and down a bit. Apparently, all that was
good enough to pass.</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">On 8/28/2026 1:36 PM, Joe Orozco via NFBCS
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<p class="MsoNormal">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. </p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Joe</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">On Fri, Aug 28, 2026 at 2:15<span>\u202f</span>PM
Jim Barbour via NFBCS <<a href="mailto:nfbcs@nfbnet.org"
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<p class="MsoNormal">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.</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Good luck,</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Jim</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">On Aug 28, 2026, at 1:06<span>\u202f</span>PM,
Jim Barbour <<a href="mailto:jbar@barcore.com"
target="_blank" moz-do-not-send="true"
class="moz-txt-link-freetext">jbar@barcore.com</a>>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span>\ufeff</span> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Hey everybody,</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">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.</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">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.</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">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.</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Good luck,</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Jim.</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">On Aug 25, 2026, at 6:27<span>\u202f</span>PM,
Bryan via NFBCS <<a href="mailto:nfbcs@nfbnet.org"
target="_blank" moz-do-not-send="true"
class="moz-txt-link-freetext">nfbcs@nfbnet.org</a>>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span>\ufeff</span> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Hi,</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">If you can\u2019t get it done, you can
call 844-545-5640 to get an appointment at your local
irs office.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Bryan</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b>From:</b> NFBCS <<a
href="mailto:nfbcs-bounces@nfbnet.org"
target="_blank" moz-do-not-send="true"
class="moz-txt-link-freetext">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"
moz-do-not-send="true" class="moz-txt-link-freetext">nfbcs@nfbnet.org</a>><br>
<b>Cc:</b> <a href="mailto:carcione@access.net"
target="_blank" moz-do-not-send="true"
class="moz-txt-link-freetext">carcione@access.net</a><br>
<b>Subject:</b> [NFBCS] ID.me</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">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.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">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?</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">I have AIRA, but I don\u2019t think they
can be on the phone and see what\u2019s on another link on
my phone.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Help!</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">This is not what I call accessible,
as a government site is required to be.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Tracy</p>
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