Accessibility
A crosshair you can see, whatever your eyesight
DOT Crosshair was created to make crosshairs easier to see. For a lot of players, this is really an accessibility issue. Here we break down how the app assists people with low vision or color blindness. We also show how the interface is designed for simple use and outline our promises regarding this website.
Low vision: go big and bold
Start with a big, bold crosshair and tweak it from there. The app lets you use a dot 60 pixels wide, lines 16 pixels thick, or a line length or circle radius of 100 pixels. You can also select any smaller size. Make the crosshair fully solid and add an outline of 2 to 4 pixels so it remains sharp on both bright and dark backgrounds. Our home page has a builder where you can test a size before installing anything.
- 60 pxlargest dot
- 16 pxthickest line
- 100 pxlongest line or circle radius
Color blindness: pick a color you can see
About 1 in 12 men, or roughly 8%, and 1 in 200 women experience red-green color blindness. For these users, a red or green crosshair can blend completely into the background. Choose a color that stands out clearly to you. Add a black or white border around it so the crosshair remains visible no matter what is behind it.
Because color perception is unique to each individual, consider the table below a guide instead of a strict set of rules. For most people, the safest option is a vivid hue bordered by a contrasting tone, such as black framing a light color or white outlining a dark one.
| Type of color vision | Try these colors |
|---|---|
| Red-greenDeuteranopia, protanopia | YellowCyanPinkWhite |
| Blue-yellowTritanopia | RedPinkWhite |
| No color visionMonochromacy (full color blindness) | WhiteBlack Go with a white crosshair bordered in black, or flip that to a black one with a white border. Size it up larger than feels necessary at first glance. |
In the app: With red-green color blindness, yellow, cyan and pink stand out best. With blue-yellow, try red or pink. An outline helps on any background.
The app itself
The settings panel features big text that adjusts to match your Windows display preferences. Screen readers can identify every control by its label, while hovering over a color option shows how it usually appears for people with red-green or blue-yellow vision differences. The keyboard lets you navigate through the options, and hitting Esc hides the panel. You can also assign custom keys to launch DOT Crosshair or toggle the crosshair visibility without touching your mouse.
Website accessibility statement
We want everyone to be able to use dotcrosshair.com. This website is built to meet the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.1 at Level AA, the guideline commonly used to measure web accessibility under the Americans with Disabilities Act.
In practice that means readable text sizes, strong color contrast, text descriptions for images, a visible focus outline, a skip link, and a crosshair builder whose controls all have labels and work with a keyboard. We test the site with automated accessibility checks and by hand with a keyboard, and we check new pages before they go live.
We aim to keep every part of the site accessible, but we may still miss something. If anything on this site is hard for you to use, please email support@dotcrosshair.com and tell us which page and what got in the way. We will work to fix it.
This statement was last reviewed on October 28, 2026.