[X4U] Black box appearing
Mark Des Cotes
mark at astroprinting.com
Thu Jul 27 05:10:04 PDT 2006
Thank you Mac, that did the trick.
Mark Des Cotes
Systems Manager/Graphic Designer
Astro Printing Service (Cornwall) Ltd.
3308 Second Street East
Cornwall Ontario Canada K6H 6J8
T (613) 932-9281 Ext 106, F (613) 932-1052
www.astroprinting.com
On 26-Jul-06, at 6:33 PM, Mac McIlvain wrote:
> This happened to me last year. In addition to the black box, my
> computer was speaking the text in the menu bars. It drove me
> absolutely batty. After two days I was just about to reinstall my
> complete system, when somehow I realized what it was. I don't
> remember how I found it, but this is what has happened:
>
> One of the items in Universal Access has been turned on. You likely
> hit the shortcut key combination to enable this option.
>
> Go to System Preferences/Universal Access/Seeing and turn VoiceOver
> off and turn Zoom off.
>
> At 11:05 AM -0400 7/26/06, Mark Des Cotes wrote:
>> Hi all,
>>
>> All of a sudden, while working in Quark Xpress this morning, a
>> black box appeared on my screen. At first I thought it was a Quark
>> issue but now I see it everywhere. While I'm typing this in Mail
>> the "Send" button at the top left of the window has a black box
>> around it. In some windows I can move the box by tabbing and shift
>> tabbing. This box is NOT the highlight to say what field is
>> selected. If I open the print window I have my normal blue
>> highlight to tell me which field I can type into and I have a
>> black box around the word "Printer:" at the top. This is getting
>> very annoying. Any ideas what I might have done and how to get rid
>> of it.
>>
>
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