Black Highlight box

Hi - There is a black highlight box that has suddenly appeared on my screen. It highlights icons when I click on them or, when I am in an application, appears as a box somewhere on the screen. I've got threw System Preferences and can't seem to find anything to change. Any ideas?

I read a post on another topic and checked "System Preferences, Universal Access". Somehow the voice option got turned on, my sound was off...so all that showed up was the black box!

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