The markets that do the sort of high volume, low margin trades that would be affected by an FTT are the foreignexchange(FX), futures, options and stock markets (with special reference to high frequency trading of the often demonised computer algorithm type).
After speaking with many traders with color-vision deficiencies, designers of DJ FX Trader, a foreignexchange tool offered by Dow Jones, the publisher of The Wall Street Journal, say they made a point of using icons to supplement color.