Assistive Technology not found:

By Carl Hinton, 23 August, 2018

Problem

After upgrading up to Ubuntu 18, on running a java based application I get

Exception in thread "main" java.awt.AWTError: Assistive Technology not found: org.GNOME.Accessibility.AtkWrapper

Solution

cd /etc/java-11-openjdk

sudo nano accessibility.properties

Comment out the final line

#
# The following line specifies the assistive technology classes
# that should be loaded into the Java VM when the AWT is initailized.
# Specify multiple classes by separating them with commas.
# Note: the line below cannot end the file (there must be at
# a minimum a blank line following it).
#
#assistive_technologies=org.GNOME.Accessibility.AtkWrapper