Combobox only announces item name with VoiceOver

[endaquigley]

Provide a general summary of the issue here

When navigating the Combobox component with VoiceOver on, only the name of the item is announced.

The following information is missing:

• Selected / not selected
• Menu item role
• Item count

🤔 Expected Behavior?

VoiceOver should announce more information about the item:

i.e. Item 01 not selected, menu item, (1 of 20)

😯 Current Behavior

Voice over only announces the item name:

i.e. Item 01

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💁 Possible Solution

The React Aria Select component does not have this issue.

The Base UI Combobox seems to work as expected:

https://base-ui.com/react/components/combobox

🔦 Context

Same thing seems to happen when you use the ListBoxSection component with Select and Combobox. Some information about the item is lost compared to when you render the items directly in the ListBox.

🖥️ Steps to Reproduce

All the examples in the docs have this issue:

https://react-aria.adobe.com/ComboBox

Version

1.18.0

What browsers are you seeing the problem on?

Chrome

If other, please specify.

No response

What operating system are you using?

MacOS 26

🧢 Your Company/Team

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🕷 Tracking Issue

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[LFDanLu]

It seems to be our custom announcement interrupting the original announcements made by VoiceOver now. We'll need to test how well it works without these custom announcements now, but at a glance we might be able to ditch that one (albeit we lose the inter section navigation announcements as a consequence of that)