[NFBCS] ID.me

[Jim Barbour]

Creating an id.me account is actually pretty trivial.  The painful part that we've been describing is the process of associating the id.me account with the IRS. That's why I was saying we don't know how other id.me customers do their thing.

Having said that, I haven't found another use for my id.me account.

Jim

On Fri, Aug 28, 2026 at 02:36:47PM -0400, Joe Orozco via NFBCS wrote:
> 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.
> Joe
> 
> On Fri, Aug 28, 2026 at 2:15 PM Jim Barbour via NFBCS
> <nfbcs at nfbnet.org> wrote:
> 
> 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.
> Good luck,
> Jim
> 
>   On Aug 28, 2026, at 1:06 PM, Jim Barbour <jbar at barcore.com> wrote:
> 
> 
> Hey everybody,
> 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’ll find that it gets messy and annoying and
> almost impossible to finish if you don’t do it all from your phone.
> 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.
> 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’s all tedious and requires patience and persistence.
> Good luck,
> Jim.
> 
>   On Aug 25, 2026, at 6:27 PM, Bryan via NFBCS <nfbcs at nfbnet.org>
>   wrote:
> 
> 
> 
> Hi,
> 
> 
> If you can’t get it done, you can call 844-545-5640 to get an
> appointment at your local irs office.
> 
> Bryan
> 
> 
> 
> From: NFBCS <nfbcs-bounces at nfbnet.org> On Behalf Of Tracy Carcione via
> NFBCS
> Sent: Tuesday, August 25, 2026 8:26 AM
> To: 'NFB in Computer Science Mailing List' <nfbcs at nfbnet.org>
> Cc: carcione at access.net
> Subject: [NFBCS] ID.me
> 
> 
> 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.
> 
> 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?
> 
> I have AIRA, but I don’t think they can be on the phone and see what’s
> on another link on my phone.
> 
> Help!
> 
> 
> This is not what I call accessible, as a government site is required to
> be.
> 
> Tracy
> 
> 
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