Can't run Java applications (like logisim) due to "Assistive Technology not found" error

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I can confirm your issue on clean Ubuntu 18.04 LTS.
So I reported bug 1788267 to the LaunchPad (currently it is marked as duplicate of bug 1788250 and exists in Debian too as bug 900912).

It is unbelievable - many Java applications are broken and show the same error involving java.awt.AWTError: Assistive Technology not found: org.GNOME.Accessibility.AtkWrapper.

Update 20180913 - bug is fixed. Steps below are not needed (they are included in the updated package).

But we can fix this problem by disabling Assistive Techonologies inside /etc/java-11-openjdk/accessibility.properties:

sudo sed -i "s/^assistive_technologies=/#&/" \
/etc/java-11-openjdk/accessibility.properties

and/or inside /etc/java-8-openjdk/accessibility.properties

sudo sed -i "s/^assistive_technologies=/#&/" \
/etc/java-8-openjdk/accessibility.properties

Can't run Java applications (like logisim) due to "Assistive Technology not found" error

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