Usage of audio check in muted tab only works first call

[davija]

Working with version 3.0.2, I have a call to the canAutoplay.audio() which correctly yields false when called the first time. However subsequent calls always return true.

Tried with chrome: Version 108.0.5359.98 (Official Build) (64-bit) on Linux, Chrome on android tablet and the behavior is the same. First call works like it should, second call always returns true.

[gkatsev]

I think I can reproduce. I added a "rerun tests" button to the example page and I have all autoplay blocked in Firefox and while it fails on the first run, all the tests pass on the second run.

I can take a look at some point, but PRs would be greatly appreciated!

[davija]

Thanks for posting the link to the test. Oddly enough, I wasn't getting those error messages in Chrome. When I checked the link it gave in the message I think I found the clue as to why it is doing this...

According to the link, autoplay is disabled until the user interacts with the document. By clicking on the rerun button the user is "interacting" with the document so, autoplay is allowed? (only guessing here). This is the same kind of situation I had, the initial test happened when the page was loaded and then when the user clicks a link it re-ran the test.

I think maybe a good test to verify this would be to have a timer setup to re-run the test on intervals when the page loads. If my suspicions are correct the timer would return false every time since the test is running without any prior user interaction.

[gkatsev]

Ah, that's true. Chrome does take document interaction into account.
For me, adding a timer locally, I do see the same results in Chrome on the rerun.