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Spur noticed the cart image for a women's sock was labelled as a men's product in the alt text

Bug Book — Bombas

The product name in the cart reads "Women's Merino Wool Blend Hiking Quarter Sock 6-Pack." The image right next to it tells screen readers it's a men's product.

TYPE OF TEST

Accessibility

AGENTS USED

Functional Testing

SEVERITY

Mild

What this run

has verified.

Spur's Functional Testing agent navigated to a product page, selected a size, added the item to the bag, and validated the cart contents, checking the product name, image, and price were all correct. They were. It also caught that the cart image's alt text referenced the wrong gender for the product.

Alt text accuracy

Cart item images labelled with the correct product name.

Accessibility

Screen readers describing the correct product to users who rely on them.

SEO integrity

Image attributes reinforcing the right product metadata.

Cart consistency

Every element of the cart item telling the same story.

Compare

The customer's live site,

captured by

Spur

during the run.

Spur Agent Analysis

Failure reason: The cart item image for the "Women's Merino Wool Blend Hiking Quarter Sock 6-Pack" carried alt text reading "Men's Merino Wool Blend Hiking Quarter Sock 6-Pack", the product name displayed correctly, but the image's alt text referenced the wrong gender, so screen reader users heard the wrong product described in their cart.

5.1 Step - Spur Observation

What this

one catch saved.

2hrs

Dev time saved

Shipped, this is the kind of thing that surfaces through an accessibility audit or a screen reader user flagging it directly.

Overlooked

Accessibility and SEO

Alt text mismatches are invisible to most users and easy to deprioritize. For someone using a screen reader, though, hearing the wrong gender in their cart is a real gap.

2hrs

Manual QA time

Catching this manually means inspecting the image attributes in the cart rather than just reading the page, the kind of check that doesn't appear on a standard functional test checklist.

The actual test

in

Accessibility & SEO issue

A 5-step add-to-cart validation test on a product page. Spur landed on the product page, selected size M, clicked Add to Bag, confirmed the cart drawer opened, and verified the correct product appeared with a valid image and price. All steps passed and it flagged a mismatched alt text along the way that a functional check alone would never surface.

Redirect to: /products/womens-merino-wool-hiking-quarter-sock-6-pack

Click on an available size option to select it

Click the Add to Bag button

Validate the cart drawer or cart modal has opened and is visible

Validate the cart contains an item with the product name matching [Product Name], a product image is displayed (not broken or missing), and a price is shown (not $0.00 or empty)