Hi @JSobanski - this is fairly typical behaviour for tools like this which are really aimed at reading out ‘web article’ style content rather for accessing interactive content like e-learning.
If you look at the help article for this feature you’ll note that it specifically says that it reads out ‘text that’s on the screen’. It also references VoiceOver as the tool to use if you need to actually interact with content on the screen.
Also see this post about Microsoft Edge’s ‘reader’ function.
Finally, just to make it clear that this isn’t just an ‘Evolve issue’, try using the Spoken Content feature with the accessibility ‘best practice’ examples provided by the W3C such as this one. Note how it only reads out the visible portion of the tabs widget, it completely skips over the tabs that are hidden.