Funny Black Rectangle Around Every Selection

A friend has a black rectangle around anything she selects in list or icon. Trashed com.apple.finder.plist, com.apple.desktop. No change. Though it's a bit hard to describe, in list view when selecting a file or folder name the black rectangle starts as far left as the window allows and stops at the right end of the name tab. It does not include the date, kind, size etc only the name.
On the desktop, selecting an icon puts a black rectangle around the icon.
There is no Color Label selected.
Any ideas?
MacOS 10.4.10, G5 Dual.

Wow, that worked. When I told her she said she had been in System Preferences and had clicked Voice Over On and forgot about it. Volume control was off.
THANKS!

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    newRGBColor.blue = 0;
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        if (a==1){var txt = ''; var layname = 'BB';};
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            newlayer.color = newRGBColor;
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            var rightartwork = omtrekartwork[2];
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