Here’s what she said and this may have been for your code before this last update:
Mark it as “global ignore”. The reason is because he has added:
<a aria-label="Open Search Bar" role="button" href="#">
We’re modifying our rule for broken skip and anchor link to ignore links like this when role=”button” has been added. That will come in a future release of Accessibility Checker. For now ignoring the issue is fine.