diff --git a/scrapy/utils/response.py b/scrapy/utils/response.py
index 794678c48..c540d6278 100644
--- a/scrapy/utils/response.py
+++ b/scrapy/utils/response.py
@@ -42,8 +42,7 @@ def get_meta_refresh(
     """Parse the http-equiv refresh parameter from the given response"""
     if response not in _metaref_cache:
         text = response.text[0:4096]
-        # a w3lib typing bug here, fixed in https://github.com/scrapy/w3lib/pull/211
-        _metaref_cache[response] = html.get_meta_refresh(  # type: ignore[assignment]
+        _metaref_cache[response] = html.get_meta_refresh(
             text, response.url, response.encoding, ignore_tags=ignore_tags
         )
     return _metaref_cache[response]
diff --git a/tox.ini b/tox.ini
index ef7dd5854..8b2d207c7 100644
--- a/tox.ini
+++ b/tox.ini
@@ -41,6 +41,8 @@ deps =
     types-Pygments==2.15.0.1
     types-pyOpenSSL==23.2.0.1
     types-setuptools==68.0.0.1
+    # 2.1.2 fixes a typing bug: https://github.com/scrapy/w3lib/pull/211
+    w3lib >= 2.1.2
 commands =
     mypy {posargs: scrapy tests}