My ipad 2 is highlighting everything and i have to double click anything to open it and a voice is telling me whatever is highlighted. i cant swipe the screen.

I just got an ipad 2 and i cant swipe the screen. the voice over the ipad is telling everything i try and touch and it wants me to double tap eveything. what do i do?

Sounds like you have VoiceOver (one of the accessibility features) 'on'. Try triple-clicking the home button and see if that turns it off, and if it does you can then change what a triple-click does via Settings > General > Accessibility > Triple-Click Home.
If that doesn't turn it off then you can either turn it off directly on the iPad (you need to use a tap-to-select and then double-tap to activate/type process and 3 fingered scrolling) to go into Settings > General > Accessibility and turn VoiceOver 'off', or you can do it by connecting to your computer's iTunes : http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4064

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