Should data-visualization guidance become a USWDS pattern? #6959

This continues core #6089 and site #2860. The proposed site migration remains available in site #3315.

The existing material provides guidance for choosing and presenting charts, rather than a packaged chart component. Contributors documented both an accessibility rationale and a landscape analysis for reconsidering its category. That work remains useful.

We are deferring the navigation and URL migration and closing its implementation issues and PR. The current guidance remains available. This discussion preserves the question without treating the migration as scheduled work.

If the current placement causes problems for your team, please share how you found the guidance, what you expected to find, and where you would look for it. Research, examples, and concrete content gaps can help us decide whether a pattern, a different category, or a smaller clarification would solve the problem. We can reopen scoped implementation work when there is an agreed need and direction.

For a new chart implementation, use the separate Chart Library proposal. This thread concerns the existing guidance and its placement. Original research and comments remain linked above; please continue this placement discussion here.