Making financial markets accessible to everyone.

Charts are visual. Markets shouldn't be.

Financial charts have always been something you look at — and that locked blind and low-vision traders out. Accessible Trade Terminal changes that: read the market by ear and keyboard, with your screen reader, as fast as anyone else.

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

Why this matters

The barrier was never ability. It was the tools.

A price chart is something you look at. For a blind or low-vision trader that has always been a wall — and it stands in front of one of the most important skills in modern life: managing and growing your own money. The exclusion isn't about ability. It's that the tools of the market were only ever built to be seen. The numbers bear that out.

  • 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 measure people with disabilities broadly, or the general population; no study yet measures blind investors on their own — which is part of the point. Access to the markets, and to the financial literacy that comes with using them, has been missing for so long it goes uncounted.

Accessible Trade Terminal was built to take that wall down — so the markets can be read, analyzed, and traded by anyone, on equal terms.

What no other trading terminal has

Plenty of apps are “screen-reader compatible” — you can tab through them and hear the labels. This is different. It was designed from the first line of code to be operated by ear and keyboard, and it’s a full professional terminal — not a simplified app, and not a chat window over a stock ticker.

  • Screen-reader native

    Exact prices and levels spoken by NVDA, JAWS, VoiceOver, and Orca — designed in from the start, not bolted on afterward.

  • Hear the chart

    A purpose-built audio engine plays price, momentum, and volume as sound in real time, so you read the shape of the market by ear. No other trading terminal does this.

  • Everything from the keyboard

    Navigate the chart, compare indicators, draw trendlines, build strategies, and place trades — without ever reaching for a mouse.

  • Braille and tactile output

    Read the chart by touch on a refreshable braille / Dot Pad display, driven by the Windows desktop app.

  • Optional visual accommodations

    Color-vision-safe palettes, hollow candles, on-screen “visual earcons,” and interface scaling to 175% — for low vision, color blindness, and deaf or hard-of-hearing traders.

  • Open, and yours

    Free and open source for individuals. No account, no email, nothing hidden — you can read exactly what it does.

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Who it’s for

Built first for blind and low-vision traders — and, because it was designed around sound, keyboard, and choice rather than sight, it accommodates far more than that.

  • Blind & low-vision

    The heart of the project. Every price, level, and signal is spoken by your screen reader and played as sound — nothing on screen is ever required to read the market or place a trade.

  • Color-blind

    Color-vision-safe chart palettes and hollow-candle shapes, so direction never depends on telling red from green.

  • Deaf & hard-of-hearing

    Every sound cue can be mirrored as an on-screen “visual earcon,” and anything the audio tells you, the screen reader and on-screen text tell you too.

  • Limited mobility

    The whole platform runs from the keyboard — no mouse, no drag-and-drop, no precise pointing ever required.

  • Sighted traders, too

    Nothing here is dumbed down. It’s a full professional terminal, and plenty of sighted traders use it precisely because reading the market by ear frees their eyes for everything else.

Hear it for yourself

Before you install anything, just listen. Press play for a short, guided tour — ten examples of what the market actually sounds like, played straight from the app’s own audio engine, with a spoken word before each one. Headphones recommended: a lot of the meaning is in the left-to-right stereo movement.

Transcript — the ten examples, and what you’re hearing
  1. A rising market. The pitch climbs as price rises, and the sound pans 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, all at once. The candle bodies, their wicks, the 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 instant 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’d hear when something needs your attention.

Every one of these is spoken and shown on screen as well — the sound is an extra channel, never the only one.

…or drive it yourself

This is the real platform, running in your browser — a BTC/USD chart you move through by keyboard and hear as sound. Click into it, use the arrow keys, add a moving average or RSI, and turn your screen reader on. No account, no email, nothing to install — just open it and listen.

Loads the real BTC/USD chart right here on the page. Best with headphones and your screen reader on.

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

Create a free paper-trading account

Liked the demo? A free account unlocks a full charting workspace in your browser — every indicator, drawing tools, alerts, saved workspaces, and the sound designer, across crypto, stocks, and forex — with paper trading, so you practise placing trades with simulated money. It now also includes watchlists and a screener, so you can track a list of symbols and scan them all at once for the conditions you care about, and a respect report that measures which levels and moving averages a market actually holds. No risk, no real funds, nothing to install.

It’s 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 exactly how you like every time you sign in. It runs on the same engine as the desktop app; the desktop adds the power features — every market and a data layer beyond price (macro, on-chain, and sentiment), strategy building, the AI analyst, custom scripting, real-money trading, braille output, and the study tools (bar replay, and a split view that puts two charts side by side) — so when you’re ready, you “graduate” to the desktop.

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Paper trading only — simulated money, for learning; no real funds are ever at risk. Real-money trading, strategy building, the AI analyst, custom scripting, and broker connections stay on the desktop app.

Who’s behind it, and why

Accessible Trade Terminal is built by Cody Hurst, who has been developing it since 2023 — not as a corporate product, but out of a simple conviction: the financial markets should be open to everyone, including the blind and low-vision people the industry has always left behind. It’s a mission with code behind it.

That conviction is backed by hard numbers. Adults with disabilities score lower on financial-literacy tests than those without (44% versus 53%), are nearly three times as likely to be unbanked, and are far less likely to hold a retirement or investment account. Much of that traces to one root cause: the tools of the market — the charts, the platforms, the data — were only ever built to be seen. Take away the ability to read a chart, and you take away the on-ramp to building wealth and financial literacy in the first place.

That’s the wall this software exists to remove. Every release pushes it a little further — so that reading a chart, running the analysis, and placing a trade are things anyone can do, on equal terms. Step-by-step training materials and video walkthroughs are on the way to make getting started even easier.

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 write code, the data sources and indicators are a plug-in system you can extend and share; if you don’t, your feature requests and bug reports are just as welcome. The code is on GitHub.

Ready when you are

It's free and open source. Create a free paper-trading account to learn in your browser, get the desktop app for real-money trading, or spend a minute in the live demo first.

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