Black Boxes Behind Icons– HELP!

Hi! I like making my own icons and then taking IconComposer (Developer tool) and having it make me a icns file. It works great, except anytime, yes anytime, I put any kind, ANY kind of custom icon on anything, instead of the background of the icon being transparent (alpha channel,) I see a big black box behind everything. If there isn't something on every one of the 32 or however many pixels in my icon, black shows up. HELP!!!!

OOPS! I must not of turned voice over to "off" as previously suggested. All situations resolved.

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