Mysterious voice over when no key pressed

Hi, randomly i am getting a voice over that says 'please type your message in the text box and ....". This is happening when i am browsing something on the internet. Following is the url that is open at that time in safari.
http://www.webdeveloper.com/forum/archive/index.php/t-90280.html
1) Voice over is not enabled. 2) Voice over voice is Alex, while what i hear is a female voice.
I also heard this once previously but ignored it because i thought i was pressing some key combination. This time however, i was not touching keyboard.
I have Witch installed, which seems to require enabling assistive device support.
Is it something with the webpages that this happens? I am sure that all the times that this happened, i was browsing something.

oops, it seems there is an ad in the site that does that. i guess that happened previously too.

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