[Nfbn-announce] Fwd: The Accessible Trading Initiative

[Amy Buresh]

Hello,

We're interested in hearing from blind and low-vision traders and investors
who have used E*Trade, TD Ameritrade, Scottrade, ThinkOrSwim -- or any other
online trading platform -- to discuss your opinions and experiences as to
the pros and cons with any of the accounts and platforms you may have used. 

I've mentioned what I'm about to say in the past months, but have since
found that some respondents messages got through to me, while some
apparently hadn't. So if anyone responded previously on this topic and
didn't hear back, please forgive me -- and try again. 

A handful of blind traders and investors are putting together a group of
interested participants for an initiative, working ultimately towards its
own Nonprofit organization, dedicated to making the world of investing and
trading on the Internet more fully accessible. So that those who are blind
or have low-vision may trade as readily as the sighted investors and traders
who can do so any time they wish. 

For many people, Day and Swing trading, and short-term investing, is a means
of income to survive and thrive on -- not just an investment to retire on
years into the future. Blind individuals should have the ability to do so
just as the sighted do. It is a viable means of earning a regular,
self-supporting income if one learns how. But to millions of people around
the globe, these tools, materials, and opportunities are not accessible or
usable on some very important levels of access to independence. 

I've used some online paper-trading games to learn how to trade and invest
over the years. Investopedia, Stockpickr, etc. Even those are inaccessible
to screen readers with some of their more important and necessary features.
Our goal is to change this. To allow the blind to have access, to have
opportunity, to learn and earn if they so wish, just like those who are
fully sighted can. 

We want to make the training materials and the trading platforms, as well as
stock tickers and charts, fully accessible. We're looking for interested
traders and investors who are blind, as well as those who'd like to learn
how to trade. We're also looking for coders and programmers who would be
willing to work towards making these platforms, programs, and training
materials more fully accessible. 

Please contact me if you would like to be part of this initiative to make
the world of investing and trading more accessible. Also, please share this
message with anyone you think might be interested. Thank you.

Strive On!

Everett

Everett Gavel

Successful Adaptations, llc

everettg at successfuladaptations.com

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