Black lines around fields I tab to incl. button, p-d menus

Something weird is going on with my computer: there's a black square around the active field in every app on my PowerBook. For example, if I open a new window in Mail, there's a black line around the New Message icon (the upper-left-most icon in my toolbar configuration). When I start typing in the address field, the black line moves to that field. If I hit Tab, the black line goes to "cc:" then "subject" then the "add bcc..." pulldown menu, then the "account" and finally "signature" pulldown menus, before going to the message window. It's basically the same thing in every app-- an ugly square of thick black lines around every active field in the app I'm working in. I poked around Universal Access in System Prefs & nothing helped. I think my daughter was playing with the computer & did something to it but she's only a year old so I can't ask her! Please help me get rid of this thing! Thanks

Hi There
Have you tried System Preferences > Universal Access > Seeing > Voiceover:(Check) and click 'off'.
Worked for me!

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