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From: Sailesh Panchang
Date: Aug 21, 2025 12:31PM

Here is a similar use case demo
http://mars.dequecloud.com/demo/Form_RadioChoice.htm
Does this resemble your example?
Thanks

Sailesh Panchang

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On Thu, Aug 21, 2025 at 11:21 AM Erick Wilder via WebAIM-Forum <
<EMAIL REMOVED> > wrote:

> 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
>
>