[Select] VoiceOver announces wrong items count in Chrome

[armhaj]

Bug report

Current Behavior

When using VoiceOver on macOS with Chrome, navigating a Select list announces
incorrect item counts. Tested on both a custom implementation and the Radix
documentation examples (fruit select).

Scenario A — a value is already selected:
Opening the list and focusing an item announces the label with a wrong total, e.g.
"Banana, 1 of 3" even when the list contains more items.

Scenario B — no value is selected:
Opening the list announces only the item label with no position or count at all,
e.g. "Banana" instead of "Banana, 2 of 5".

VoiceOver + Safari is unaffected. NVDA on Windows is unaffected.

Expected behavior

VoiceOver should announce the item label, its position, and the correct total for
every focused item regardless of whether a value is pre-selected,
e.g. "Banana, 2 of 5".

Reproducible example

Reproduced on the Radix documentation page using the fruit Select example.
https://www.radix-ui.com/primitives/docs/components/select?utm_source=chatgpt.com#accessibility

Suggested solution

Needs investigation.

Additional context

VoiceOver + Safari = works correctly
NVDA + Chrome = works correctly
VoiceOver + Chrome = problem

Your environment

Software	Name(s)	Version
Radix Package(s)	@radix-ui/react-select	2.2.6
React	n/a	^18
Browser	Chrome	Version 149.0.7827.103
Assistive tech	VoiceOver
Node	n/a
npm/yarn/pnpm
Operating System	macOS	Tahoe 26.5 (25F71)

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