element-hq / element-hq/element-call

Users don't know when to expect audio from screensharing

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A-Screen-Sharing O-Frequent T-Defect X-Needs-Design
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Description

### Steps to reproduce

Try to screenshare with audio

### Outcome

We're not clear enough about the fact that some browsers (Firefox) don't do audio with screensharing. As a result, users blame the application when they are unable to share audio in these environments. Chrome does its own expectation management around sharing of audio (when you're trying to share a tab versus a window), but we need something additional to this.

On the other hand it's not clear what we *could* do. A warning pop-up every time you go to share your screen could be a bit over the top.

### Operating system

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### Browser information

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### URL for webapp

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### Will you send logs?

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