These settings make the user interface quicker to use and more helpful. Some settings are particularly useful for people with visual or physical impairments.
Mouse gestures let you do frequently performed browse operations with small, quick mouse movements. Disable mouse gestures to avoid performing them unintentionally.
The Hotclick menu (with multiple choices) appears when you double-click text in Web pages. This feature can be disabled if you would rather right-click selected text to get the same menu.
If you are left-handed, you may want to swap the mouse buttons for the back and forth mouse-button gestures.
List items, for example in Preferences and the Hotlist, can be underlined when you point to them (hover) with your mouse.
Let dialog boxes appear at mouse position to make interaction faster.
Learn more about mouse gestures
After using terminals, Emacs, and other UNIX programs, you get used to certain common UNIX keyboard shortcuts. By enabling this option you can use these keyboard combinations in text boxes.
Example: Ctrl + A is "Go to start of line".
When you enter Web addresses or e-mail addresses, addresses entered earlier are displayed in a drop-down menu (automatic completion), to save you from repeated typing.
When you navigate bookmarks in Opera's Hotlist, you can press a key, for example E, to jump between items that start with the letter E. Turn on menu-style item selection to make bookmarks open automatically if only one item corresponds with the key you pressed.
Tooltips pop up with useful information when you point your mouse to various elements, both in Web pages and in Opera's user interface.
Learn more about accessibility in Opera
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