diff --git a/packages/react-native/ReactAndroid/src/main/java/com/facebook/react/uimanager/NativeViewHierarchyManager.java b/packages/react-native/ReactAndroid/src/main/java/com/facebook/react/uimanager/NativeViewHierarchyManager.java
index 9dca8b0a37361f..53f31f3cd570a3 100644
--- a/packages/react-native/ReactAndroid/src/main/java/com/facebook/react/uimanager/NativeViewHierarchyManager.java
+++ b/packages/react-native/ReactAndroid/src/main/java/com/facebook/react/uimanager/NativeViewHierarchyManager.java
@@ -945,7 +945,7 @@ private ThemedReactContext getReactContextForView(int reactTag) {
   public void sendAccessibilityEvent(int tag, int eventType) {
     View view = mTagsToViews.get(tag);
     if (view == null) {
-      throw new JSApplicationIllegalArgumentException("Could not find view with tag " + tag);
+      throw new RetryableMountingLayerException("Could not find view with tag " + tag);
     }
     view.sendAccessibilityEvent(eventType);
   }
diff --git a/packages/react-native/ReactAndroid/src/main/java/com/facebook/react/uimanager/UIViewOperationQueue.java b/packages/react-native/ReactAndroid/src/main/java/com/facebook/react/uimanager/UIViewOperationQueue.java
index 93ccb0a9fbf98b..de3ca5db4f1899 100644
--- a/packages/react-native/ReactAndroid/src/main/java/com/facebook/react/uimanager/UIViewOperationQueue.java
+++ b/packages/react-native/ReactAndroid/src/main/java/com/facebook/react/uimanager/UIViewOperationQueue.java
@@ -591,7 +591,18 @@ private SendAccessibilityEvent(int tag, int eventType) {
 
     @Override
     public void execute() {
-      mNativeViewHierarchyManager.sendAccessibilityEvent(mTag, mEventType);
+      try {
+        mNativeViewHierarchyManager.sendAccessibilityEvent(mTag, mEventType);
+      } catch (RetryableMountingLayerException e) {
+        // Accessibility events are similar to commands in that they're imperative
+        // calls from JS, disconnected from the commit lifecycle, and therefore
+        // inherently unpredictable and dangerous. If we encounter a "retryable"
+        // error, that is, a known category of errors that this is likely to hit
+        // due to race conditions (like the view disappearing after the event is
+        // queued and before it executes), we log a soft exception and continue along.
+        // Other categories of errors will still cause a hard crash.
+        ReactSoftExceptionLogger.logSoftException(TAG, e);
+      }
     }
   }