SightAdapt™ 0.5.0.50 Alpha

SightAdapt is a free, open-source Windows application for per-application visual accessibility and color correction.

SightAdapt applies configurable color correction to selected application windows through a separate input-transparent overlay. It does not modify another application's files or process memory.

• Product website: https://aiteracja.pl/sightadapt/
• Source repository: https://github.com/KeyffMS/SightAdapt
• Publisher: KeyffMS / aiteracja.pl
• License: MIT License

Current version

Product version: 0.5.0.50-alpha
File version:    0.5.0.50
Milestone:       0.5.0.50 Alpha
Settings schema: 5
Runtime:         .NET 8, Windows x64

The product and file versions are read from the executable assembly metadata.

Functionality

SightAdapt currently provides:

• persistent per-application visual-profile assignments;
• optional distinct visual profiles for native Win32 popup menus, with inheritance from the application profile;
• automatic activation for enabled application assignments;
• built-in None (no correction), fixed Exact invert, and editable Soft invert profiles;
• independent user-defined Soft Invert profiles;
• output-black, output-white, brightness, contrast, saturation, and hue controls;
• grayscale and hue-spectrum profile previews;
• create, duplicate, rename, edit, assign, and delete operations for user-defined profiles;
• per-application overlay scope: client area, full window, current screen, or all screens;
• foreground-window detection every 75 ms with duplicate suppression;
• a bounded runtime application-identity cache;
• reuse and retargeting of one persistent application overlay, plus transient native-menu overlays;
• a short transition grace period that reduces visible white flashes;
• two global shortcuts;
• a notification-area menu and configuration panel;
• immediate explicit and emergency overlay shutdown;
• schema-versioned JSON settings with migration and atomic persistence;
• automated build, test, architecture, migration, Windows publish and final-archive legal-bundle validation.

New application assignments use Soft Invert, inherit that profile for native popup menus, and use client-area scope by default. Selecting None for the application and an explicit menu profile leaves the application unchanged while correcting only its native popup menus.

Keyboard controls

Shortcut	Action
Ctrl+Alt+I	Locally enable or disable visual correction for the active window without changing saved settings
Ctrl+Alt+Shift+I	Add, disable, or re-enable the active application's persistent automatic assignment

Emergency shutdown is available from the notification-area menu.

Build a standalone EXE

The application can be published as a self-contained single-file executable. It does not need to be started with dotnet run, and the target computer does not need a separately installed .NET runtime.

Detailed instructions: docs/BUILD.md.

From the repository root:

dotnet restore .\src\SightAdapt\SightAdapt.csproj

dotnet publish .\src\SightAdapt\SightAdapt.csproj `
    --configuration Release `
    --runtime win-x64 `
    --self-contained true `
    -p:PublishSingleFile=true `
    --output .\artifacts\win-x64

The publish directory contains SightAdapt.exe and the legal-document bundle required for binary distribution:

artifacts\win-x64\SightAdapt.exe
artifacts\win-x64\LICENSE.txt
artifacts\win-x64\THIRD-PARTY-NOTICES.txt
artifacts\win-x64\DOTNET-LICENSE-NOTICE.txt
artifacts\win-x64\DEPENDENCIES.md
artifacts\win-x64\PRIVACY.md

Create and validate the final archive according to the binary packaging standard.

Documentation

• Product identity and brand usage
• Release naming and attribution
• Binary packaging standard
• Complete functionality
• Current architecture
• Build and package a standalone EXE
• Privacy notice
• Dependency inventory
• Third-party notices
• Microsoft .NET redistribution notice
• Documentation index
• Security policy
• Contribution guide

Current limitations

• only one foreground application session is corrected at a time;
• background or fully obscured windows are not persistently filtered by the current Magnification API backend;
• separate menu profiles apply only to native Win32 #32768 popup menus; WPF, WinUI, Chromium/Electron, Qt, and other custom-rendered menus are not separately corrected;
• profile import and export are not implemented;
• palette analysis, dominant-color extraction, targeted color rules, and LUT import are not implemented;
• protected or DRM-controlled content may not be capturable;
• elevated applications may require SightAdapt to run at a compatible integrity level;
• remote-desktop sessions and some graphics drivers may not support the magnifier control correctly;
• endurance and broad compatibility testing are not complete.

Product identity and license

The product identity is always written as SightAdapt. The first or most prominent public use may be written as SightAdapt™; technical identifiers such as SightAdapt.exe, namespaces, URLs, tags, and package identifiers remain plain SightAdapt. The registered-mark symbol ® must not be used unless a valid registration is obtained.

SightAdapt™ is an unregistered product mark used by KeyffMS / aiteracja.pl.

SightAdapt is licensed under the MIT License. See LICENSE. Binary distributions include the same terms as LICENSE.txt together with the privacy, dependency and third-party notice files.