Most likely users are not HMDA experts and they need more context around the data

[dezzie]

We received feedback from users that they didn't grasp the point of HMDA well enough. Right now the following places on the docs give context:

• The Overview section on the landing page.
• The blurb above the main nav on the landing page.
• The Putting it all together section in the Basics page that assumes knowledge of a Fed bulletin
• Basically the whole Field Reference page

We initially thought that linking to cf.gov/hmda would help but those links weren't noticed.

Proposed fixes:

• Don't give the "congressional history" of HMDA but rather explain the present state of it in the "jobs to be done" perspective.
• Swap out the federal reserve examples for what a random dev would want to know instead ("hmm....I wonder how many people get rejected in my neighborhood?")
• Rewrite the blurb on the landing page
• Something needs to happen on the Calls page because all of the field names show up there but there isn't a definition for them there
• Re-do the field table descriptions
• The overview in the Field Reference page should have come a lot earlier...
• No one is watching the video from a link so embed it?
• Don't make people go to the Learn More page on the HMDA site...there isn't anything there for devs