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From: Erick Wilder
Date: Aug 21, 2025 9:21AM

Hello everyone.

I have a form with radio groups to select from weight units (stones or
kilograms). Once the user selects “stones” the UI updates itself to display
2 fields where the user is expected to enter: the stones portion of the
weight and the pounds portion of it.
Once the user selects “kilograms” the UI changes itself to display a single
text field to accept the weight value.

Questions: are there any implications to announce these UI changes to
screen readers that I can expect? Should the form be annotated as an ARIA
live region? Would this be more suitable to a tabbed interface instead of
radio buttons (i.e each tab containing an its corresponding fields)?

Regards,
Erick