[NFBCS] ID.me

Fri Aug 28 20:47:10 UTC 2026

When I did the ID.ME, they had a video selfee that you had to take.  I couldn’t 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’t 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.

Sean

From: NFBCS <nfbcs-bounces at nfbnet.org> On Behalf Of Jim Bauer via NFBCS
Sent: Friday, August 28, 2026 3:51 PM
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Subject: Re: [NFBCS] ID.me

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.

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.

On 8/28/2026 1:36 PM, 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 <mailto: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 <mailto: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 <mailto: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

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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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