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when clicked a button, able to edit. How to achieve it?

Hi All,

I have the following visualforce page, initially when the page loads the Role Field should be readonly. But when AddContact button is clicked then the Role field should be editable. 

<apex:page standardcontroller="REL_VS_Submission__c" extensions="RELVSRenewalController" sidebar="false">
    <apex:sectionheader title="VSA Renewal Submission" subtitle="Step 2 of 10" />
    <apex:messages />
    <apex:form >
        <apex:pageblock title="Contact Information">
<apex:variable value="{!0}" var="rowContactNumber" />
            <!-- Here we will use an extra variable to define a row number -->
            <apex:outputpanel id="panelWithVar">
                <apex:variable value="{!0}" var="rowContactNumber" />
            </apex:outputpanel>
            <apex:pageblocksection title="Contact Information" columns="1">
                <apex:pageblocktable value="{!anewContact}" var="item" id="newContactitems"  columnsWidth="5%,20%,10%,10%,10%,10%,5%,5%,5%,5%,10%,3%,2%">
                    <!-- A button to remove individual entry. s
                    We must to pass the line number to define a list entry number to remove -->
                    <apex:column headervalue="Delete">
                        <apex:commandbutton immediate="true" action="{!removeContactObject}" value=" X " rerender="newContactitems,panelWithVar">
                            <apex:param name="p2" value="{!rowContactNumber}" assignto="{!numberOfContactRowToRemove}" />
                        </apex:commandbutton>
                    </apex:column>
                    <!-- Moreover here we incrementing the row number variable -->
                    <!--<apex:column headerValue="RowCount">
                        <apex:outputText value="{!rowContactNumber}"/>
                    </apex:column>-->
                  
                    <apex:column headervalue="Role">
                        <apex:inputfield value="{!item.REL_VS_Contact_Role__c}" disabled="{!isDisabled"/>
                        <apex:variable var="rowContactNumber" value="{!rowContactNumber + 1}" />
                    </apex:column>
                    <apex:column headervalue="First Name">
                        <apex:inputfield value="{!item.Firstname}" required="true" />
                    </apex:column>
                    <apex:column headervalue="Last Name">
                        <apex:inputfield value="{!item.Lastname}" required="true" />
                    </apex:column>
                    <apex:column headervalue="Phone">
                        <apex:inputfield value="{!item.Phone}" required="true" />
                    </apex:column>
                    <apex:column headervalue="Fax">
                        <apex:inputfield value="{!item.Fax}" required="true" />
                    </apex:column>                  
                    <apex:column headervalue="Personal Email">
                        <apex:inputfield value="{!item.Email}" required="true" />
                    </apex:column>
                    <apex:column headervalue="General Email" >
                        <apex:inputfield value="{!item.REL_VS_Generic_Email__c}" />
                    </apex:column>
                    <apex:column headervalue="Title">
                        <apex:inputfield value="{!item.Title}" required="true"/>
                    </apex:column>
                     <apex:column headervalue="Mailing Street">
                        <apex:inputfield value="{!item.MailingStreet}" required="true"/>
                    </apex:column>
                    <apex:column headervalue="Mailing City">
                        <apex:inputfield value="{!item.MailingCity}" required="true"/>
                    </apex:column>
                    <apex:column headervalue="Mailing State">
                        <apex:inputfield value="{!item.MailingState}" required="true" />
                    </apex:column>
                    <apex:column headervalue="Mailing Zip">
                    <apex:inputfield value="{!item.MailingPostalCode}" required="true" />
                    </apex:column>
                 </apex:pageblocktable>
            </apex:pageblocksection>
            <!-- A main button to add a new item -->
            <apex:commandbutton value="Add Contact" action="{!addContactObject}" rerender="newContactitems,panelWithVar" immediate="true"/>

        </apex:pageblock>
        <apex:pageblock >
            <apex:pageblocksection columns="4">
                <apex:commandbutton action="{!step3}" value="Save and Continue"
                                    styleclass="btn" />
                <apex:commandbutton action="{!reset}" value="Reset Page"
                                    styleclass="btn" immediate="true" />
                <apex:commandbutton action="{!exit}" value="Exit"
                                    styleclass="btn" immediate="true" />
                <apex:commandbutton action="{!Back}" value="Back"
                                    styleclass="btn" immediate="true" />
            </apex:pageblocksection>
        </apex:pageblock>
    </apex:form>
</apex:page>

Apex code:
 public Boolean isDisabled {get; set;}
//constructor
 isDisabled = true;

 public PageReference addContactObject() {
        anewContact.add(new Contact(FirstName = ''));
//making it editable     
  isDisabled = false;
        return null;
    }

Please help me, the above code is failing for me.