Black rectangle everywhere I click

I tried using safe mode and restarting my computer. This black rectangular box on my screen is everywhere. When I click on a folder, file name, even around the whole document.
Anyone know what cause this problem? And how I can fix this?
thx!

Open the Universal Access pane of System Preferences, click on Seeing, and turn VoiceOver off.
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