Provide a better built-in suggestion engine

The progressive enhancement approach already uses a very simple suggestion engine. It would be easier to use the autocomplete if it offered an API that was as simple as:

accessibleAutocomplete({
  element: document.querySelector('#autocomplete-container'),
  options: ['United Kingdom', 'United States']
})

And as a later feature, supporting (at a basic level):

• custom weighting
• synonyms / aliases (e.g. UK for United Kingdom)
• highlighting matched text
• unicode support (diacritics)

Some work on this can be based on the openregister-picker-engine.

[alexnewmannn]

this is definitely something we are keen to have in DWP, we require a list of hospitals and their aliases both of which should return results. We may also require address to return results, will be happy to pick it up if we have time within our team 👍

[NickColley]

@alexnewmannn appreciate you offering to help but we don’t have a lot of time to work on features for this component, so we’re prioritising bugs: for example accessibility issues.

We’ll let you know if that changes as we’d love to get your input then, thanks again.