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Remove button has the role "tab" which is not accessible

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Assessment

Difficulty
2/5
Estimated time
1-3 hours
Newbie friendliness
72/100
Issue type
Bug
Clarity
Mostly clear
Activity status
Active
Tech stack
react, typescript
Domain
accessibility, frontend

Research direction

Start at src/TabNavList/TabNode.tsx line 131 and inspect how the remove button is assigned the tab role. Check the surrounding tab and remove-button semantics, then verify that the remove control no longer exposes an inaccessible role while tab behavior remains intact.

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Description

Remove button on tabs has the "tab" role which is not accessible. Here's the line that causes this:
https://github.com/react-component/tabs/blob/master/src/TabNavList/TabNode.tsx#L131

Dominant language
TypeScript
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Forks
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Avg merge
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Merged PRs (30d)
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