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What's new in 1.5.0

1.5.0 is the finalization release — a minor update that adds a lot without breaking anything. Saved workspaces, shortcuts, and API keys from 1.4.0 load unchanged. The terminal is still, first and foremost, a voice-and-audio instrument; every visual feature below is optional and stays off until you turn it on. What 1.5.0 adds is depth: a complete mouse experience, touch and mobile support on the website, and a set of visual accommodations for other needs — all while keeping the audio-first experience exactly as it was. For the full engineering changelog, see the v1.5.0 release notes on GitHub (opens in new tab).

Use the chart with a mouse — and hear everything you click

Every mouse action now lands in the same place the keyboard navigates, and everything is spoken through the same voice you already know. That makes the mouse fully usable alongside a screen reader, and it lets a sighted friend point at something and have you hear exactly what they're looking at.

• Click a bar to hear it — a single click moves the reading cursor there and reads it out, just like arrowing to it. Click roughly, then fine-tune with the arrows.
• Click near an indicator to focus it, and Shift+click to measure from your cursor to the clicked bar (bars, dates, high, low, and net change) without losing your place.
• Scroll to zoom, Shift+scroll to pan, double-click to jump to now. A hover crosshair shows the date, price, and OHLC of the bar under the pointer as real on-screen text, so magnifiers work on it.
• Right-click for a chart menu that lists every indicator by name with Mute, Hide, Properties, and Remove — so you never have to click a two-pixel line to act on one.
• Optional extras in that menu: magnet snap (drawing anchors jump to the exact open/high/low/close) and hover sound (a soft tick that hums the price contour as you sweep). Both off by default.

Touch and mobile

On a touchscreen — a phone or tablet on accessibletrader.com, or a touch laptop — the chart understands the gestures you'd expect, each one spoken like the keyboard: tap a bar to hear it, drag to pan, pinch to zoom, double-tap to jump to the latest bar, press and hold for the menu.

• A touch toolbar appears below the chart with large, clearly-labelled buttons, so nothing ever depends on a gesture landing just right.
• With VoiceOver or TalkBack running, a Bar navigator lets you flick up and down through bars, each spoken with its date and price.

Touch in the installed desktop/mobile apps flows through the same layer and is expected to work the same way, but hasn't yet been verified on physical devices — until then a connected Bluetooth keyboard remains the fully-supported way to drive the mobile apps.

Visual accessibility — all optional, off by default

The terminal presents itself audio-first. If a visual channel helps you, turn any of these on in Settings (F12) → Appearance → Visual accessibility — each applies instantly:

• Visual earcons — mirror every sound cue (fills, stops, take-profits, setups, new bars, errors) as a brief on-screen badge, for deaf and hard-of-hearing traders or a quiet room. One gentle fade per event; nothing flashes.
• Color-vision-safe chart colors — up in blue, down in orange, distinguishable with deuteranopia or protanopia.
• Hollow up-candles so direction reads by shape alone, and text size scaling from 85% to 175%.

Two more need no switch: if your system is set to reduce motion, animations turn off automatically, and on high-resolution screens the chart now renders crisply at your display's native pixel density.

Find any setting, and other conveniences

• Search settings — a search box atop the F12 dialog: type "speech", "theme", or "alerts" and jump straight to the setting, whichever tab it lives on.
• The AI Analyst shows its analysis as text, not just speech, and rebinding a shortcut warns you if it displaced another command's only key, so a shortcut never goes missing silently.
• Getting-started help — press F1 for a five-step walkthrough to your first chart.

Under the hood: security and reliability

• Custom scripts now refuse to run if the operating-system sandbox is unavailable, rather than quietly running unprotected, and your API-key list is now encrypted at rest (migrated automatically on first run; the old plain-text file is removed for you).
• A data bug was fixed where one stock/forex provider (FMP) could return stale bars when asked for a small number of recent ones.
• Automated test coverage grew from 1,176 to 1,505 tests, with a new suite for the touch gestures.

Questions or issues? See the User Manual and Quick Start Guide.