Orca and minimalist X environments (was Re: accessible routers)

[Jason White <jasonw ariel its unimelb edu au>]

On Mon, Jan 29, 2007 at 07:24:48PM +1000, Jan and Bertil Smark Nilsson wrote:
> I don't believe in 
> using GUI when there is a text-based program that will do the job.

I agree, and this prompts me to raise a question about which I have been
wondering for a while.

Does Orca work in an X environment that falls short of a full Gnome desktop?
For example, suppose I want to work mainly from the shell, but need to be able
to invoke X (including, potentially, Gnome) applications from time to time.
Thus, I want to start out in a shell window, maximized, with as few other
windows open as possible, but also to be able to invoke X applications, in
their own windows, from the command line, e.g., Mozilla.