Bidi protocol and WebDriverIO

[ballendq]

Product

webdriverio

Product Version

4.10.1

Latest Version

• I have tested the issue with the latest version of the product

Issue Description

Expectation

@axe-core/webdriverio should work without errors when using WebdriverIO v9 and the bidi protocol

Actual

@axe-core/webdriverio will throw an error when using v9 and the bidi protocol.

How to Reproduce

@scottmries to help with this.

Additional context

This issue was reported on axe community slack.

A user has suggested that:

"... navigating to about:blank in bidi won't work."
"... do this: await browser.url('data:text/html,') instead"

[martijnhjk]

FYI this is the error in my terminal:

[chrome 131.0.6778.140 mac #0-0] Error: switchToWindow failed. Are you using updated browser drivers? 
[chrome 131.0.6778.140 mac #0-0] Driver reported:
[chrome 131.0.6778.140 mac #0-0] waitUntil condition timed out after 10000ms
[chrome 131.0.6778.140 mac #0-0]  Please check out https://github.com/dequelabs/axe-core-npm/blob/develop/packages/webdriverio/error-handling.md

[Bredansky]

Getting the same as @martijnhjk

[Bredansky]

This line in the config file's capabilities setting can be used as temporary workaround.

  'wdio:enforceWebDriverClassic': true