diff --git a/packages/react-native/React/Fabric/Mounting/ComponentViews/Text/RCTParagraphComponentView.mm b/packages/react-native/React/Fabric/Mounting/ComponentViews/Text/RCTParagraphComponentView.mm
index 9fb3400d90cda5..074b9736c44062 100644
--- a/packages/react-native/React/Fabric/Mounting/ComponentViews/Text/RCTParagraphComponentView.mm
+++ b/packages/react-native/React/Fabric/Mounting/ComponentViews/Text/RCTParagraphComponentView.mm
@@ -179,7 +179,7 @@ - (NSArray *)accessibilityElements
   // If the component is not `accessible`, we return an empty array.
   // We do this because logically all nested <Text> components represent the content of the <Paragraph> component;
   // in other words, all nested <Text> components individually have no sense without the <Paragraph>.
-  if (!_textView.state || !paragraphProps.accessible) {
+  if (!_textView.state || !paragraphProps.accessible.value_or(false)) {
     return [NSArray new];
   }
 
diff --git a/packages/react-native/React/Fabric/Mounting/ComponentViews/View/RCTViewComponentView.mm b/packages/react-native/React/Fabric/Mounting/ComponentViews/View/RCTViewComponentView.mm
index 777428c3772e5e..53b94469167596 100644
--- a/packages/react-native/React/Fabric/Mounting/ComponentViews/View/RCTViewComponentView.mm
+++ b/packages/react-native/React/Fabric/Mounting/ComponentViews/View/RCTViewComponentView.mm
@@ -344,7 +344,7 @@ - (void)updateProps:(const Props::Shared &)props oldProps:(const Props::Shared &
 
   // `accessible`
   if (oldViewProps.accessible != newViewProps.accessible) {
-    self.accessibilityElement.isAccessibilityElement = newViewProps.accessible;
+    self.accessibilityElement.isAccessibilityElement = newViewProps.accessible.value_or(false);
   }
 
   // `accessibilityLabel`
diff --git a/packages/react-native/ReactAndroid/src/main/jni/react/fabric/FocusOrderingHelper.cpp b/packages/react-native/ReactAndroid/src/main/jni/react/fabric/FocusOrderingHelper.cpp
index e30b1e2c89a0fd..4ae8233b15e084 100644
--- a/packages/react-native/ReactAndroid/src/main/jni/react/fabric/FocusOrderingHelper.cpp
+++ b/packages/react-native/ReactAndroid/src/main/jni/react/fabric/FocusOrderingHelper.cpp
@@ -118,7 +118,8 @@ void FocusOrderingHelper::traverseAndUpdateNextFocusableElement(
   // focused and present in the hierarchy
   if (currNode->getTraits().check(ShadowNodeTraits::Trait::KeyboardFocusable) ||
       (props != nullptr &&
-       (props->focusable || props->accessible || props->hasTVPreferredFocus))) {
+       (props->focusable || props->accessible.value_or(false) ||
+        props->hasTVPreferredFocus))) {
     LayoutMetrics nodeLayoutMetrics = uimanager.getRelativeLayoutMetrics(
         *currNode, parentShadowNode.get(), {.includeTransform = true});
 
diff --git a/packages/react-native/ReactCommon/react/renderer/components/view/AccessibilityProps.h b/packages/react-native/ReactCommon/react/renderer/components/view/AccessibilityProps.h
index f6686eb76c8914..bf2950c259b817 100644
--- a/packages/react-native/ReactCommon/react/renderer/components/view/AccessibilityProps.h
+++ b/packages/react-native/ReactCommon/react/renderer/components/view/AccessibilityProps.h
@@ -31,7 +31,7 @@ class AccessibilityProps {
 
 #pragma mark - Props
 
-  bool accessible{false};
+  std::optional<bool> accessible{std::nullopt};
   std::optional<AccessibilityState> accessibilityState{std::nullopt};
   std::string accessibilityLabel;
   std::vector<std::string> accessibilityOrder{};
diff --git a/packages/react-native/ReactCommon/react/renderer/components/view/ConcreteViewShadowNode.h b/packages/react-native/ReactCommon/react/renderer/components/view/ConcreteViewShadowNode.h
index 38ac9ea6d05b73..e6c8c2f3a3fa4f 100644
--- a/packages/react-native/ReactCommon/react/renderer/components/view/ConcreteViewShadowNode.h
+++ b/packages/react-native/ReactCommon/react/renderer/components/view/ConcreteViewShadowNode.h
@@ -118,6 +118,7 @@ class ConcreteViewShadowNode : public ConcreteShadowNode<
       BaseShadowNode::orderIndex_ = 0;
     }
 
+    // TODO why is this not needed
     bool isKeyboardFocusable =
         HostPlatformViewTraitsInitializer::isKeyboardFocusable(props) ||
         props.accessible;
diff --git a/packages/react-native/ReactCommon/react/renderer/components/view/ViewShadowNode.cpp b/packages/react-native/ReactCommon/react/renderer/components/view/ViewShadowNode.cpp
index 19e6f2106e005b..3daa6ea605d334 100644
--- a/packages/react-native/ReactCommon/react/renderer/components/view/ViewShadowNode.cpp
+++ b/packages/react-native/ReactCommon/react/renderer/components/view/ViewShadowNode.cpp
@@ -48,7 +48,7 @@ void ViewShadowNode::initialize() noexcept {
 
   bool formsStackingContext = !viewProps.collapsable ||
       viewProps.pointerEvents == PointerEventsMode::None ||
-      !viewProps.nativeId.empty() || viewProps.accessible ||
+      !viewProps.nativeId.empty() || viewProps.accessible.value_or(false) ||
       viewProps.opacity != 1.0 || viewProps.transform != Transform{} ||
       (viewProps.zIndex.has_value() &&
        viewProps.yogaStyle.positionType() != yoga::PositionType::Static) ||
diff --git a/packages/react-native/ReactCommon/react/renderer/components/view/platform/android/react/renderer/components/view/HostPlatformViewProps.cpp b/packages/react-native/ReactCommon/react/renderer/components/view/platform/android/react/renderer/components/view/HostPlatformViewProps.cpp
index e64a92fbc314f8..6b8f6481d04b93 100644
--- a/packages/react-native/ReactCommon/react/renderer/components/view/platform/android/react/renderer/components/view/HostPlatformViewProps.cpp
+++ b/packages/react-native/ReactCommon/react/renderer/components/view/platform/android/react/renderer/components/view/HostPlatformViewProps.cpp
@@ -692,7 +692,7 @@ folly::dynamic HostPlatformViewProps::getDiffProps(
   }
 
   if (accessible != oldProps->accessible) {
-    result["accessible"] = accessible;
+    result["accessible"] = accessible.value_or(false);
   }
 
   if (getClipsContentToBounds() != oldProps->getClipsContentToBounds()) {