Suggestions for future "accessible-autocomplete" work

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Findings from a phone call with Ed Horsford on 10th July 2018:

1. govuk-country-and-territory-autocomplete should remain its own repo as much of the logic is specific to country data (more specific notes made about the workings of that repo).

2. We should make it easy for depts to consume accessible-autocomplete while adding their own data / logic to it.

3. We should add the following (in this order of priority?) to accessible-autocomplete:

• Sorting (what would be an example of this?)
• Synonyms (for instance on typing "gb", render "United Kingdom (GB)")
• Typos (replace mistyped word with correct word)
• Weighting (biased results)

4. Possibly controversial: There is enough evidence to recommend doing the above without doing further user research on user requirements.

5. There is some prototype code written for sorting and weighting results in govuk-country-and-territory-autocomplete. It should be rewritten but could be useful for initial investigation.

6. This is a useful resource: https://baymard.com/blog/autocomplete-design