No, it is still an issue. Those icons are fairly small, if I have many tabs open it can take a moment for my eyes to scan across the tabs to locate the playing icon.
What chrome should do is take the capability that lets them know if a tab is playing sound and use it to mute that sound, unless the user requests otherwise or perhaps unless the tab is actually being displayed to the user.
What web developers should do is stop autoplaying things with sound. Unless your website is dedicated to things with sound and your user already knows that (read: unless your site is youtube, or vimeo) then autoplaying sound is always the wrong thing to do.
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No, it is still an issue. Those icons are fairly small, if I have many tabs open it can take a moment for my eyes to scan across the tabs to locate the playing icon.
What chrome should do is take the capability that lets them know if a tab is playing sound and use it to mute that sound, unless the user requests otherwise or perhaps unless the tab is actually being displayed to the user.
What web developers should do is stop autoplaying things with sound. Unless your website is dedicated to things with sound and your user already knows that (read: unless your site is youtube, or vimeo) then autoplaying sound is always the wrong thing to do.