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Ensure all HTML tags in issue descriptions are escaped / enclosed in code backticks

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Assessment

Difficulty
2/5
Estimated time
1-3 hours
Newbie friendliness
50/100
Issue type
Bug
Clarity
Needs clarification
Activity status
Active
Tech stack
typescript
Domain
tooling

Research direction

Start by reproducing the behavior from the example issue at https://github.com/helen/wp-themes-a11y-scanning/issues/12, then trace the entry point that generates GitHub issue descriptions. Check the generated text for HTML tags and add coverage for the reported case; done means tags are escaped or enclosed in code backticks.

Written by the indexing model from the issue text.

Description

Example: https://github.com/helen/wp-themes-a11y-scanning/issues/12

Dominant language
TypeScript
Stars
374
Forks
42
Avg merge
1d 9h
Merged PRs (30d)
10

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First steps

  1. Read the whole issue, then the project's contributing guide.
  2. Comment on the issue to say you are picking it up — it saves two people doing the same work.
  3. Fork the repository and make your change on a branch.
  4. Open a pull request that references the issue number.

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