Keyboard input appears to be ignored when trying to input text in to a widget component

Keyboard input appears to be ignored when trying to input text in to a widget component. The text box does not accept any keys being pressed.

1. Open the editor
2. Open first person template
3. Create a new widget blueprint
4. Place a text box in the designer tab
5. Save and compile
6. Create a new actor blueprint
7. Add a widget component
8. Set the widget component to that of the widget that was created above
9. Save and compile
10. Open the first person character blueprint
11. Add a widget interaction component
12. Set the interaction source to "mouse"
13. Create the blueprint in the attached image
14. Add the actor that was made earlier to the level (the one with the widget component)
15. Play in Editor
16. Click the text box
17. Try to type things into it
18. Notice that the input is not accepted

Expected: Once the text box has been clicked the text box would reflect the text being typed by the keyboard
Result: The text box does not accept any keys being pressed