The Project ALERT (Adult Literacy Enhanced & Redefined through Training) Workplace Literacy Project consisted of a partnership between Wayne State University, the Detroit Public schools, and several city organizations, unions, and manufacturers in the automobile industry, which formed to meet employees' job-specific basic skills application needs in manufacturing and service operations, through the development of whole language curriculum and training. One of the courses developed during the project was a multimedia course based on "The New Reading Disc." A similar disk was developed for the project, customized for a manufacturing site in Detroit to include terminology, photos, videos, and topics of interest to low-literacy workers. Developing the disk took approximately 150 hours and included the following components: deciding what topics to include; determining terminology; interviewing workers; allocating topics to formats; researching; writing texts; checking texts for readability; finding photos; obtaining permissions to use photos; taking original videotapes; editing videotapes to go with text; scanning pictures into computers; writing scripts; making voice overlays; imputing components into hard drive; and transferring customized portions to site. The product was user friendly and was well received by participants. (KC)