Anchor Component: Discovery about uswds-team HOT 3 CLOSED

Impact with Current Footer Examples (NASA and USDA)
https://bixal.invisionapp.com/d/main?origin=v7#/console/20355423/427201226/preview?scrollOffset=0

Footer Visual Competitive Analysis
https://bixal.invisionapp.com/freehand/document/FKDrzhzza

Footer Landscape Analysis https://github.com/uswds/uswds/wiki/Footer-Landscape-Analysis

Accordion Landscape Analysis https://github.com/uswds/uswds/wiki/Accordion-Landscape-Analysis

from uswds-team.

OK, let's move forward with this.

• It will be the Anchor unless a new name can make a better case
• The Anchor should provide a common experience and common information at the bottom of every page of every government website, just as the Banner is at the top of every page of every website.
• It helps teams make conformance to content requirements simple, by including all required links in a simple consistent presentation
• This helps organizations, by allowing for a simple consistent customizable identification element at the bottom of any web page that can include any necessary logos and necessary shot, descriptive contextual text
• The Anchor will use a full-width stacked/layered module structure, and allow for possible new modules in future iterations
• It will include an action-oriented link to USA.gov as a distinct module at the very bottom of every page
• The required links module will be full-width and include all links in a compact view that is visible without an accordion, directly above the USA.gov module
• It will include an optional module at the top for agency/product identification
• The identification module is meant to include logos and short descriptive text
• Once we have a solid content model, we'll test the Anchor with multiple languages to assure resilience
• Similarly to the Banner, most of the text in the Anchor is not meant to be editable. The exception is the identification module.

Did I miss anything?

Let's include all landscape analysis and initial sketch links in our internal documentation, then we can close this issue.

cc @jAigret-Bix @allie-shaw @katieekline @mejiaj

from uswds-team.

@afeijoo @allie-shaw @thisisdano Anchor: discovery capture and research plan

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