Help! My cat screwed something up!

So my cat was looking very cute rolling around on my desk as I took pictures, but she rolled on top of my keyboard and I guess she hit a very strange key combination that has turned on the most annoying feature I have ever seen/heard. The computer will not speaking at me! Anything I click on becomes highlighted with a big black outline and a voice reads the title of the file, then continues to describe anything I am doing, like opening the trash, typing a website, opening itunes, even shutting my computer down.
Can someone please tell me how to remove this? It's driving me insane.
Thanks!

Jack,
Try this.
Press the F5 key while holding down the command key.
On some keyboards (such as on a MacBook) you'll also need to press the fn key as well.
Matt

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