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Community Member

9 years ago

Audio autostart

I need to have the audio automatically start on each lesson. How can I do this?

JanetWhiteBardw

Community Member

7 years ago

Has there been any movement on this concept of audio auto-start?

Thanks

AshleyT-Pollard
Staff
7 years ago
Hi Janet,

Since Adam's initial response, we haven't added in autoplay of media. Some browsers, such as Chrome and Safari, have also started to block autoplay of media for the same reasons as noted below. Think of the sites you visit where an ad starts playing immediately, and you often can't find where it is on the page to stop it!

Adam Schwartz

Hey Mary - just a bit more color on this. We have shied away from auto-start of media because it's not a web-standard experience on multi-device. For example, if you were on a site on your phone and all of sudden it started playing audio or video it would be a pretty intrusive experience.

We'll let you know if anything changes in regards to this request though!
- JanetWhiteBardw
  Community Member
  7 years ago
  I understand what you mean about intrusiveness, it has happened to me during general browsing! But given the controlled environment of a training session we could inform trainees beforehand that there is audio. Just wanted to keep the idea out there:) Or at least an auto start option within the audio section so there is a choice.
  
  Thank you!
  
  Janet