Voiceover not automatically reading Login Screen

Hi,
Today I encountered a very weird issue. When I booted my M1 MacBook Air it chimed like normal and when the login screen came up Voiceover only read a few words and then stopped reading. I was unable to put in my password or move around the screen-it would just beep at me like when you press a wrong key command. So I held the power button to turn it off and restarted again. This time there was no Voiceover at all so I toggled it on with CMD F5 and again it just said "system window" and wouldn't let me do anything So I toggled it on and off again and rebooted once again. This time there was no voiceover again so I got sighted assistance to read the screen via video call on my phone and was told the login screen was up and the password field was in focus. I started typing and was told my password was showing up as I typed so once done I toggled voiceover back on and pressed Return to login. Once logged in Voiceover was fine. Now when I reboot or shut down and boot fresh Voiceover doesn't start talking on the login screen unless I manually turn it on. Is this a bug in Mac OS 12.3? I didn't make any changes to anything after I shut it down last night and booted it today except for plugging it into an outlet to charge for a couple hours. It's not a big deal to toggle on VO when the login screen comes on but I am confused and frustrated that it is happening because as far as I know nothing has changed on my end. Is anyone else having this issue or is there a way to fix it? Vault is not on and I set VO to speak on the login screen when I did the initial mac setup a few months ago and it's been fine until today. Any help or suggestions would be appreciated.