diff --git a/src/java.desktop/macosx/classes/sun/lwawt/macosx/CAccessibility.java b/src/java.desktop/macosx/classes/sun/lwawt/macosx/CAccessibility.java
index 494995735e6..636d8240a55 100644
--- a/src/java.desktop/macosx/classes/sun/lwawt/macosx/CAccessibility.java
+++ b/src/java.desktop/macosx/classes/sun/lwawt/macosx/CAccessibility.java
@@ -116,7 +116,9 @@ final class CAccessibility implements PropertyChangeListener {
         if (newValue instanceof Accessible) {
             AccessibleContext nvAC = ((Accessible) newValue).getAccessibleContext();
             AccessibleRole nvRole = nvAC.getAccessibleRole();
-            if (!ignoredRoles.contains(roleKey(nvRole))) {
+            String roleStr = nvRole == null ? null :
+                    AWTAccessor.getAccessibleBundleAccessor().getKey(nvRole);
+            if (!ignoredRoles.contains(roleStr)) {
                 focusChanged();
             }
         }
@@ -1034,8 +1036,10 @@ final class CAccessibility implements PropertyChangeListener {
                 // "ignored", and we should skip it and its descendants
                 if (isShowing(context)) {
                     final AccessibleRole role = context.getAccessibleRole();
-                    if (role != null && ignoredRoles != null &&
-                            ignoredRoles.contains(roleKey(role))) {
+                    String roleStr = role == null ? null :
+                            AWTAccessor.getAccessibleBundleAccessor().getKey(role);
+                    if (roleStr != null && ignoredRoles != null &&
+                            ignoredRoles.contains(roleStr)) {
                         // Get the child's unignored children.
                         _addChildren(child, whichChildren, false,
                                 childrenAndRoles, ChildrenOperations.COMMON);
@@ -1096,8 +1100,6 @@ final class CAccessibility implements PropertyChangeListener {
         return isShowing(parentContext);
     }
 
-    private static native String roleKey(AccessibleRole aRole);
-
     public static Object[] getChildren(final Accessible a, final Component c) {
         if (a == null) return null;
         return invokeAndWait(new Callable<Object[]>() {
diff --git a/src/java.desktop/macosx/native/libawt_lwawt/awt/JavaAccessibilityUtilities.m b/src/java.desktop/macosx/native/libawt_lwawt/awt/JavaAccessibilityUtilities.m
index bf66df162d1..fcd330940cc 100644
--- a/src/java.desktop/macosx/native/libawt_lwawt/awt/JavaAccessibilityUtilities.m
+++ b/src/java.desktop/macosx/native/libawt_lwawt/awt/JavaAccessibilityUtilities.m
@@ -325,20 +325,6 @@ static BOOL JavaAccessibilityIsSupportedAttribute(id element, NSString *attribut
     return [[element accessibilityAttributeNames] indexOfObject:attribute] != NSNotFound;
 }
 
-/*
- * Class:     sun_lwawt_macosx_CAccessibility
- * Method:    roleKey
- * Signature: (Ljavax/accessibility/AccessibleRole;)Ljava/lang/String;
- */
-JNIEXPORT jstring JNICALL Java_sun_lwawt_macosx_CAccessibility_roleKey
-(JNIEnv *env, jclass clz, jobject axRole)
-{
-    DECLARE_CLASS_RETURN(sjc_AccessibleRole, "javax/accessibility/AccessibleRole", NULL);
-    DECLARE_FIELD_RETURN(sjf_key, sjc_AccessibleRole, "key", "Ljava/lang/String;", NULL);
-    return (*env)->GetObjectField(env, axRole, sjf_key);
-}
-
-
 // errors from NSAccessibilityErrors
 void JavaAccessibilityRaiseSetAttributeToIllegalTypeException(const char *functionName, id element, NSString *attribute, id value)
 {