Select: Safari VoiceOver does not announce selected value

[jramke]

🐛 Bug report

When using the Select machine (e.g docs example) the selected value is not correctly announced when using VoiceOver in Safari Tahoe (didnt test other versions).

When selecting a value and the focus moves back to the trigger the default value "select option" is announced.

During another testing i also noticed that not the default but the previous option was announced when selecting a new value. However i cant reproduce this. For the first case you can see a screen recording below.

💥 Steps to reproduce

Open the docs select example and select a value using VO.

💻 Link to reproduction

https://zagjs.com/components/select

🧐 Expected behavior

The updated value/content of the trigger should be announced.

🧭 Possible Solution

In my case i made the open state controlled and used a timeout like this. I dont know why the raf in the machine is not enough.

onOpenChange(details) {
	setTimeout(() => {
		setOpen(details.open);
	}, 0);
},

i also noticed that safari VO sometimes read the first value of the content list (although display: hidden) because of the aria-controls attiribute linking to it. This could be resolved when i removed the aria-controls attribute when the popover is not open, maybe this could also help to fix some edgecases and it would not break anything.

const triggerProps = api.getTriggerProps();
const mergedTriggerProps = mergeProps(triggerProps, {
	...(!api.open ? { 'aria-controls': null } : {}),
});

🌍 System information

Software	Version(s)
Zag Version	1.40.0
Browser	Safari 26.3
Operating System	Tahoe 26.3

🧢 Your Company/Team

📝 Additional information

Cap.2026-04-25.at.19.50.15.mp4