diff --git a/src/widgets/itemviews/qtreeview.cpp b/src/widgets/itemviews/qtreeview.cpp
index 2c040b2d635..23588d4917c 100644
--- a/src/widgets/itemviews/qtreeview.cpp
+++ b/src/widgets/itemviews/qtreeview.cpp
@@ -2177,7 +2177,12 @@ void QTreeView::doItemsLayout()
     }
     QAbstractItemView::doItemsLayout();
     d->header->doItemsLayout();
-    d->updateAccessibility();
+    // reset the accessibility representation of the view once control has
+    // returned to the event loop. This avoids that we destroy UI tree elements
+    // in the platform layer as part of a model-reset notification, while those
+    // elements respond to a query (i.e. of rect, which results in a call to
+    // doItemsLayout().
+    QMetaObject::invokeMethod(this, [d]{ d->updateAccessibility(); }, Qt::QueuedConnection);
 }
 
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