With the European Accessibility Act and Germany's Barrierefreiheitsstärkungsgesetz (which translates to Barrier Freedom Strengthening Act) coming into force in July 2025, ensuring digital accessibility is no longer optional. This article explores the importance of accessibility and how AI-driven solutions using Semantic Kernel and OmniParser could streamline the process of making websites more inclusive ahead of the looming legal deadline.

Discover how this proof of concept leverages AI using .NET Semantic Kernel to provide visually impaired users with real-time audio descriptions of their surroundings. This web app showcases the potential power of AI in Assistive Technology.

In part 3 of this tutorial, we'll create the Vue.js frontend for our chat application.

We continue the tutorial in this second part. We'll deploy all the Azure resources and integrate them with the backend API.

A tutorial on creating a chat application using .NET, Azure OpenAI and Vue.js. In this first part, we'll set up the project, create the backend API and run it inside a Docker container.