So it would appear that Orca and the cinnamon desktop environment do not particularly like each other.

Since cinnamon is a fork of the gnome project, it somewhat works. Like I can view my desktop icons and use the terminal and view files in the file manager. But I cannot use the start menu, view the panel and system tray, etc.

Also, it appears while the file manager does let me view files and folders. I can't shift tab through other functionality from the file manager.