[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
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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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