Voice-over and weird key combinations trouble.

hello,
I have a macbook of the previous gen. with OSX leopard. Last night a voice-over turned on which talks to everything I do even telling me on what internet site I am, everything that I was using was outlined. And the keys had an other order. So for example: F11 was not for turning down volume but became the expose button.
I did not turn these functions on and I don't know how to turn them of either.
So please help because it's really anoying
Thanks in advance
David

Hi,
you did turn them on, you just didn't notice it. Go to System Preferences/Universal Access and turn off VoiceOver. You can deactivate or change the key combo so it won't happen again.
Björn

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