My ipod touch has a box around everything i touch

At first the touch wasn't working.  Finally the battery died and I was able to charge it and now the slide isnt work right, its very slow. i have to double tap an icon for it to work. a box appears around anything i touch even around the time.

You have an accessibility feature turned on, likely VoiceOver. Triple click the Home button and then go to Settings>General>Accessibility and turn them off. Use three fingers to scroll.
You can also connect the iPod to the computer and go to the Summary pane of the iPod in iTunes and click on Configure Universal Access and turn it off.
Also see:
iPhone: Configuring accessibility features (including VoiceOver and Zoom)

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