There are some functions used by the ableplayer that are deprecated in jQuery version 3.5, then removed from the 4.0.0 version.
https://blog.jquery.com/2024/02/06/jquery-4-0-0-beta/

These two functions can be replaced by native ones:
jQuery.trim
jQuery.isNumeric

This issue can help with the upgrade to jQuery 4.

Tested on drupal/ableplayer