Equalizing financial markets for everyone

Accessible Trade Terminal is a free, open-source, cross-platform trading terminal designed from scratch with accessibility built in. Draw trendlines and channels, practice on a built-in paper-trading simulator, set alerts, and build your own indicators, providers and strategies — every core trading function, reachable by screen reader. Control everything from the keyboard, and get output as speech, sound or braille.

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Windows · macOS · Linux · keyboard-driven · screen-reader native

The terminal charting Bitcoin against the US dollar on the hourly. A candlestick chart with a white price line fills the upper panel and a volume histogram sits below it. Above them are three rows of controls: a row of labelled buttons — object tree, sound designer, trade dashboard, order book, strategies, watch lists, levels, trade journal, AI analyst, alerts, API keys, save and load workspace, settings and help; then market, provider, symbol and timeframe selectors; then load chart, pan, zoom, heatmap, Heikin Ashi, log scale and replay. Under the chart a second bar holds the focused indicator with hide and mute, and on its right the add-indicator, scripts and drawings buttons. A status line at the foot reads “Trading carries risk.”
The default layout: price, candles and volume. Every control on screen has a keyboard shortcut.

Why financial literacy matters

Traditional employment has always been a hard road for blind people. Trading is one of the few fields where that doesn’t have to be true. The problem is that financial charts are visual. But if you could read the chart, you could run the same analysis as anyone else. Learn the core concepts, manage your risk, and that door opens.

The problem was never ability. It was that the tools were only ever built to be looked at. The numbers show it.

  • less accurate — and 211% slower — when screen-reader users pull information from an online chart, versus sighted users.

    Sharif et al., ACM ASSETS 2021

  • financial-literacy test scores: adults with disabilities versus adults without.

    National Disability Institute / FINRA, 2015

  • more likely to be unbanked — working-age people with disabilities (11.2%) versus without (3.7%).

    FDIC, 2023

  • of Americans own stock — while blind participation in the markets isn’t even measured.

    Gallup, 2025

These figures cover people with disabilities generally, or the population as a whole. No study measures blind investors on their own, which is part of the point. Nobody has been counting.

Accessible Trade Terminal exists to remove that barrier, so anyone can read a chart, analyze it, and place a trade.

What it does

Plenty of apps are “screen-reader compatible”. You can tab through them and hear the labels. This one was built from the start to be controlled by keyboard, and it’s a full professional terminal, not a simplified app.

Accessibility

  • Hybrid voice. Speech reads the exact numbers. Sound tells you the shape and where you are. Lines, oscillators, bars and signals each have their own sound.
  • Auto-narration. Press N and an indicator speaks for itself as the market moves — crosses, zones entered and left, the pattern on the bar that just closed. Aim it at one series, or one component of one.
  • Screen readers. NVDA, JAWS, Narrator, VoiceOver, Orca, TalkBack.
  • Braille. Two series at once on a refreshable Dot Pad display.
  • Keyboard. Every function has a shortcut. No mouse needed, anywhere.
  • Low vision and color blindness. Interface scaling to 175%, hollow candles, color-vision-safe palettes.
  • Deaf and hard of hearing. Every sound cue is mirrored as an on-screen visual earcon.
  • Journal. A log of everything the terminal has said, so you can read it back.

Charting and analysis

  • 75+ indicators across 16 categories: trend, momentum, volatility, volume, cycles, derivatives, on-chain and more.
  • 14 drawing tools. Trendlines, channels, Fibonacci, horizontals, text labels.
  • Structure tools. Market structure, value zones, the respect report, volume and market (TPO) profiles, liquidity heatmap.
  • Pattern recognition. Twelve chart formations and twenty-four candlestick patterns, named as you move through them — on live bars and on history.
  • Study tools. Bar replay and a per-bar inspector.
  • Your own indicators. Write them in C#, or import Pine Script.
  • AI analyst. A plain-language read of trend, levels and momentum. It describes the chart. It won’t advise you, and it can’t touch your account.

Markets and trading

  • 33 built-in providers across crypto, stocks, forex, futures and analytics.
  • Your own API keys, kept in your operating system’s encrypted credential store, never in a plain file.
  • Paper trading. A simulated account, so you can practice with nothing at risk.
  • Real orders. Stops, targets, trailing exits and OCO pairs.
  • Watchlists and a screener. Track a list, scan it all at once.
  • Alerts on any condition, sent by email, Telegram, webhook, a desktop notification, or a channel you write yourself.

Make it yours

  • Sound designer. Build earcons from layered oscillators, or load your own audio samples.
  • Per-indicator sound. Change the sound of any component from its properties dialog.
  • Appearance. Your own themes, and colors, line styles and thickness per indicator.
  • Speech. Set what gets read and how much of it.
  • Workspaces. As many assets as you want across tabs, autosaved and restored when you start.
  • Automate it. Strategies you can backtest in the Strategy Lab, background monitoring across tabs, custom scripts in a sandbox, and an SDK to extend any of it.
The same terminal charting Tesla stock on the daily timeframe: the market, provider and symbol selectors read Stock, Twelve Data and TSLA instead of crypto, and the timeframe row offers one minute up to one month, so load chart sits at the end of that row rather than below it. Everything else is the layout of the Bitcoin chart above — the same button row, the same candles over a volume histogram, the same focused-indicator bar underneath.
Stocks, crypto, forex and futures all load into the same chart, the same keys, the same sounds.

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Take the audio tour

Press play for a short guided tour to hear ten examples of what the market actually sounds like, with a spoken description before each one. Headphones recommended.

Transcript — the ten examples, and what you’re hearing
  1. A rising market. The pitch climbs as price rises, and the sound moves from your left ear to your right as it moves through time.
  2. A falling market. The same idea in reverse. The pitch descends.
  3. A whole chart at once. Candle bodies, wicks, volume and the price line all playing together, bar by bar: a rally, a pullback, then a higher high.
  4. A quiet, sideways market. The pitch barely moves, so you can hear that not much is happening.
  5. Volume at each price level. Louder means more trading happened there. The loudest pop marks the point of control.
  6. A moving-average crossover. A chime fires the moment the two lines cross.
  7. The RSI. It sounds rough in the oversold zone, chimes as it crosses back up, and again as it reaches overbought.
  8. A support level. A chime marks price breaking below it, and a second chime as price bounces back up through it.
  9. A trade setup triggering. Setup armed, entry reached, then the bell that tells you long or short.
  10. Alerts. The error and notification sounds you hear when something needs your attention.

All of it is spoken and shown on screen as well. The sound is an extra channel, never the only one.

Drive it yourself

Load the in-page demo for a live BTC/USD chart. Press Ctrl+Alt+Shift+C to focus the chart, move through it with the arrow keys, and add a moving average or an RSI. If you like it, sign in for the full set of providers and indicators and complete paper trading.

Prefer it full-screen? Open the demo in its own tab .

Create a free paper-trading account

Create a free paper-trading account to try every feature of the terminal in your browser. If you decide you want to trade with real funds, download the binary for your platform from the downloads page and read the quickstart guide for the common keyboard commands.

Built to teach

Learn what an RSI divergence or a support level sounds like, build up a paper track record, and save your audio, visual and speech settings so the platform sounds the way you like it every time you sign in. Tutorials and training material are on the way.

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Why Accessible Trade Terminal was needed

Accessible Trade Terminal has been in development since 2023 — not as a corporate product, but out of my own interest in the markets, which started in 2021 when I first got involved in crypto.

There was nothing comparable. There was nothing at all, really, that solved the problem of a blind person running technical analysis and placing trades through the exchange of their choice. Many crypto exchanges and financial platforms have badly built websites, so even placing a trade was often not possible, let alone doing analysis.

Somewhere in that, I realized this software could do more than solve my own problem: it could bolster financial literacy and open a door for anyone willing to learn.

And it’s free and open source — no paywall, no paid tier, nothing hidden. Released under the GPL, because access to the markets shouldn’t depend on your ability to pay any more than on your ability to see. If you are a developer, the data sources and indicators are a plug-in system you can extend and share; if you aren’t, your feature requests and bug reports are just as welcome. The code is on GitHub.