Does libel magically turn into slander if a blind person uses a screen reader? Asking for a friend. ;-)
It seems that paying to skywrite (you know, small plane making artificial clouds) could be slander but not libel
Citation? By that light, a DVD containing defamatory speech would be libelous, but that's generally not how courts see it.
From the (highly-influential) U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, summarizing New York law (which is quite typical): "Defamation, consisting of the twin torts of libel and slander, is the invasion of the interest in a reputation and good name. Generally, spoken defamatory words are slander; written defamatory words are libel. Libel is a method of defamation expressed in writing or print." [0]
https://scholar.google.com/scholar_case?case=601727562995661...