Black box around buttons and windows

My 19 month old daughter has learned to climb up to the desk, and OPEN my laptop! Before I could stop her, or turn on AlphaBaby, she had pressed a number of keys, and now a little black box highlights various things in the programs I have open. As I type this, the red circle at the top left to close the window has a box around it. When I was trying to find how to turn it off in system preferences, the bar at the top with the arrows and Show All button had a box around it. In Mail my inbox window has a box around it.
Any ideas as to how to turn it off?
Thanks!
Heidi

Your daughter shows great promise!
Go to System Preferences/Universal Access and turn OFF Voice Over.
(She pressed Command-F5 !)

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