Desk top and all graphics in negative

After a small inquisitive child (perhaps a future Apple user) fiddled with the key board, the desk top turned negative. I can't find the appropriate system preference to revert to normal graphics. Example: my firefox background is black etc.

There is a setting in Universal Access, where you can
reverse the black/white back to normal; and there is a
keyboard combination which can be used without this
system preference panel open; and that may be how
the situation occurred in the first place.
So, open System Preference 'universal access' panel to
change the setting back to normal, re-set to black on
white, from white on black.
Hopefully you can set up a second account for young
users with limits on their access of the system settings.
And if you run the computer in a non-Admin account as
your 'daily user' and reserve a main Admin account for
maintenance and upgrading the OS, a child or guest
user can't readily mess up the main OS X installation.
Good luck & happy computing!

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