Black Bar that describes what I'm doing and wont go away

[josephine123]

Hi, I am a really new mac user, totally clueless and I just loaded Snow Leopard. All is going great except this stupid black bar with white text that is constantly on my screen and tells me what I am doing or where my cursor is.

i.e. 'You are currently on a close button'.. or 'Quit iTunes'.. or 'File 16 items'

I hope this makes sense and it's probably really basic but what is this?? and why is it here? It is flamin' annoying and I can't click on it to get rid of it or find preferences etc.. any help greatly appreciated

 

[tpg]

It's probably voiceover that's been turned on by accident. Go to system preferences, universal access, and turn it off there.

 

[Queso]

Although I'm not sure of the feature name it sounds as if the Universal Access panel in the System Preferences has something enabled. Check in there.

EDIT : It's the VoiceOver Caption Panel. So definitely Universal Access is where you need to go.

 

[spinnerlys]

Yep, it's System Preferences > Universal Access > Speech > Voice Over.

 

[josephine123]

As simple as that... thank you all, you're awesome!!!!

 

[CristinaMaria]

Although I'm not sure of the feature name it sounds as if the Universal Access panel in the System Preferences has something enabled. Check in there.

EDIT : It's the VoiceOver Caption Panel. So definitely Universal Access is where you need to go.

[doublepost=1497487405][/doublepost]Thank you so much! My cat loves messing with my settings! I have to hide the keyboard and track pad every night!

 

[Helpful Hints]

You Can just Click these Buttons at the same time(for mac): command, fn, and f5 will do the trick
[doublepost=1502424189][/doublepost]Just click command fn f5