How to make the Orca screen reader read Java Swing Application on java 18 and higher. As far as I understand, I need java-atk-wrapper. After installing it, I launch the application with the command java -jar -Dassistive_technologies=org.GNOME.Accessibility.AtkWrapper -verbose:jni test.jar.
In the logs I see movement through application elements, but Orca is silent. Tell me how to properly launch a Java Swing application so that Orca can speak it.
Hi. I’m also very interested in this problem, because my goal is to make JetBrains ides accessible. I compiled ATK wrapper from source and installed it. However, when I uncomment a line in accessibility_properties which enables assistive technology support, all my java programs fail to start with ClassNotFoundException. They can’t find org.GNOME.Accessibility.AtkWrapper. I’m using Ubuntu 24.04
Please see with Oracle about this.
I has reported the issue a long time ago already, explaining the issue etc. but to no avail. The details are in Oracle incident 9127367
https://bugs.java.com/bugdatabase/view_bug.do?bug_id=JDK-8204862 but they couldn’t reproduce and the discussion didn’t actually happen. Now that the support was completely dropped from openjdk 17+ in Ubuntu, perhaps they’ll eventually notice that it’s completely broken and they really need to move on to get things working again. In the meanwhile, use openjdk 8…