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"Invalid" failure on label creation

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Assessment

Difficulty
3/5
Estimated time
1-2 days
Newbie friendliness
48/100
Issue type
Bug
Clarity
Needs clarification
Activity status
Active
Tech stack
github, typescript
Domain
accessibility, api

Research direction

Start with the accesslint workflow run linked in the issue and reproduce label creation using the reported label name. Check the GitHub validation response to determine whether the name is rejected, then make the label-creation path handle the cause; done means label creation succeeds without disabling accesslint, or the failure is clearly reported for the separate labels-off issue.

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Description

Getting an "invalid" response and failure on label creation, had to turn off accesslint for now: https://github.com/helen/wp-themes-a11y-scanning/actions/runs/32175148610

HttpError: Validation Failed: {"value":"accesslint rule: keyboard-accessible/scrollable-region","resource":"Label","field":"name","code":"invalid"} - https://docs.github.com/rest/issues/issues#create-an-issue

Not clear to me if it's something in the label name or if it thinks it's spam or something else. In this case I realistically would rather just turn off labels, so that's #245

Dominant language
TypeScript
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