diff --git a/src/app/features/room/RoomViewTyping.tsx b/src/app/features/room/RoomViewTyping.tsx
index 7fa6341e6..9bc330772 100644
--- a/src/app/features/room/RoomViewTyping.tsx
+++ b/src/app/features/room/RoomViewTyping.tsx
@@ -38,7 +38,12 @@ export const RoomViewTyping = as<'div', RoomViewTypingProps>(
     // a `role="status"` region added to the DOM together with its first text
     // is not reliably announced by some screen readers.
     let typingAnnouncement = '';
-    if (typingNames.length === 1) {
+    if (typingNames.length === 0) {
+      // nobody typing — keep the region mounted but silent (the final `else`
+      // below used to announce "undefined, undefined, undefined and -3
+      // others are typing" on every room load, Gitea #187)
+      typingAnnouncement = '';
+    } else if (typingNames.length === 1) {
       typingAnnouncement = `${typingNames[0]} is typing`;
     } else if (typingNames.length === 2) {
       typingAnnouncement = `${typingNames[0]} and ${typingNames[1]} are typing`;