I would like to see more flexibility in performing these checks. I have two suggestions: For tasks where audio playback and/or recording occur on multiple displays and/or in multiple tasks, it's a bit cumbersome for participants to keep repeating the initialization checks. If they could be done once at the beginning of the experiment, that would help streamline things. I do research on bilingualism and with populations of varying literacy. Sometimes we want to control what languages participants are exposed to in the task, so the flexibility to present the checks in different languages would be crucial for these studies. Where literacy is low, it would be convenient to present the instructions for these tasks auditorily, although that's a bit of a catch-22, if we're using audio to check and see if the audio is working. But anything that would move in that direction would be helpful! Thanks