mui / mui/material-ui

[autocomplete] when VoiceOver is on, dropdown closes as soon as the mouse hovers over an option

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browser: Firefox scope: autocomplete type: bug
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Description

Steps to reproduce

Steps:

  1. Open this link to live example: https://mui.com/material-ui/react-autocomplete/
  2. Turn on VoiceOver
  3. Open any Autocomplete dropdown
  4. Try to select any option with mouse or keyboard
  5. Notice that it just vanishes before you can actually choose anything
Current behavior

Dropdown closes as soon as an option gets the focus. This makes the component completely unusable if VoiceOver is turned on.

Expected behavior

Autocomplete should behave the same when VoiceOver is turned on.

Context

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Your environment
npx @mui/envinfo
  System:
    OS: macOS 26.2
  Binaries:
    Node: 22.20.0 - /Users/myusername/.volta/tools/image/node/22.20.0/bin/node
    npm: 10.9.3 - /Users/myusername/.volta/tools/image/node/22.20.0/bin/npm
    pnpm: Not Found
  Browsers:
    Chrome: 144.0.7559.110
    Edge: 144.0.3719.104
    Firefox: Not Found
    Safari: 26.2
  npmPackages:
    @emotion/react: 11.14.0 => 11.14.0
    @emotion/styled: 11.14.1 => 11.14.1
    @mui/core-downloads-tracker:  7.3.7
    @mui/lab: 7.0.1-beta.21 => 7.0.1-beta.21
    @mui/material: 7.3.7 => 7.3.7
    @mui/private-theming:  7.3.7
    @mui/styled-engine:  7.3.5
    @mui/system: 7.3.7 => 7.3.7
    @mui/types:  7.4.10
    @mui/utils:  7.3.7
    @mui/x-date-pickers: 8.24.0 => 8.24.0
    @mui/x-internals:  8.24.0
    @types/react:  19.2.7
    react: 18.3.1 => 18.3.1
    react-dom: 18.3.1 => 18.3.1
    typescript: 5.9.3 => 5.9.3
This is not very relevant in this context, as I'm reproducing it on the @mui website.

Search keywords: autocomplete, a11y, voiceover

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