Calendarium - About this Day

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Description of App

Calendarium is new, easy to use calendar which gives you a new way to discover many interesting things about this day.

Calendarium combines calendar of historical events with times of sunrise/sunset, number of week, day, day lenght, moon phase and more.

Features:

  • Discover historical events and holidays and share it with your friends via mail, twitter or SMS
  • Sunrise and sunset time 
  • Week number, day number, weekday and year
  • Number of days passed from 1 Jan and days left to 31 Dec
  • Moon phases 
  • Day length 
  • Geographic coordinates 
  • No Internet connection required

Version

1.2.5

Free or Paid

Paid

Apple Watch Support

Not Known

Device(s) App Was Tested On

iPhone

iOS Version

6

Accessibility Comments

There are some minor issues for VoiceOver users, but all parts of the app do appear to be accessible.

There is an unlabelled button on the main screen that loads the information about moon phase, day length and your coordinates. This seems to be displayed in some form of overlay, and it can take some tapping to actually get focus on this information. Until you do, VoiceOver will keep announcing items from the main display.

This is the only real issue for VoiceOver users. The only other challenge is to see how long it takes you to realize that the two separate numbers located near the top of the main display are the sunrise and sunset times.

VoiceOver Performance

VoiceOver reads all page elements.

Button Labeling

Most buttons are clearly labeled.

Usability

There are some minor accessibility issues with this app, but they are easy to deal with.

App Store Link

https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/calendarium/id482136387?mt=8&ign-mpt=uo%3D4

Developer's Website

http://www.kunstforum-piaristen.com/idea/

Related Podcast

http://www.applevis.com/podcast/episodes/find-out-what-happened-day-history-cal…

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Comments

By Julie M. on Thursday, March 21, 2013 - 21:12

Apparently this app is no longer free because the iTunes page for the app says free for today only. I don't remember now what the price is but I think it was $1.99. Maybe it used to be free, but I just looked into this app for the first time today so I wouldn't know.

By AnonyMouse on Thursday, March 21, 2013 - 21:12

Member of the AppleVis Editorial Team
Hello Julie, Thanks for pointing that out to us. I have made the change to being a Paid app. I just checked on it. It appears to have gone back and forth of being $0.99 and to being Free fequently this year but it is indeed a Paid app. Thanks!