Hello. I think that braille menus in restaurants is a great idea. It is frustrating having to rely on others to read the menu for me, as I feel I can’t take as much time as I would like to choose what I am going to eat. About school, I found it very frustrating. I used to get things Brailled and I always received the work after the rest of the class. I also found it hard doing tests and reading novels. I often had to get extensions on assignments. When I was at school first I used a talking typewriter, then the Eureka and then the Aria. I think my life would have been a lot easier if Apple products were out back then.

I type in braille on my iPhone, because it's far faster than the on-screen keyboard. I grew up using braille, and currently know contracted, UEB, Nemeth, some English computer braille, and Spanish computer braille.

In school, braille was essential for math, labeling diagrams, quickly finding how something was spelled, and reading or reviewing text while a teacher was speaking. These days, braille is useful for coding or reading in loud environments, but not essential. Where I still love braille is reading lines for plays, and reading set lists, notes, chords, and the like when I play music with a group. I have a 26x9 braille slate that fits 7x5 notebooks perfectly. I braille out all the notes I need, then keep that notebook with me on stage.

I agree with the price of braille displays. I am very happy with my bluetooth keyboard. Also, the Perkins Brailler is big and heavy and who would want to carry that around? Also I agree with the fact that books in braille take up so much room and take longer to read.

I learnt numbers when I started uni so I could operate the elevator. Other than that I never really needed it.

I do think menus would be great - I can't order from anywhere that doesn't have a paper menu.

Also prices in shops, particularly in grocery stores would be awesome.

a) I would love Braille street signs, though that's probably asking too much.

b) I grew up and learned Braille it took me two years to learn contracted Braille and one year to learn Alphabet Braille so I did not know Braille fully until age ten. I read Braille books all the time, although by age twelve I was writing most of my assignments on my laptop the school provided. I still prefer writing out any research notes or any notes I am making on books in Braille on my Brailler, so call me old fashioned.

I learned Braille as a kid, and for the longest time afterwards decided I wasn’t really likely to use it, because speech was so much nicer and so forth. I am changing that view now, though, because I had an organization pay for a display for me, no questions asked. I definitely want to see more of it in general, because I have come to appreciate the aesthetics of being able to actually feel the text, particularly as I am trying to learn foreign languages, which is a bit of a bumpy road with just speech. 
As for where, restaurant menus are obvious, but I also do want to see more braille books, because it would be nice to have the same kind of experience as sighted people, basically. I know there is no particular reason I can’t use electronic versions, and I do, but it just isn’t the same. :-)
Also, as a final note, you can’t read to friends and loved ones using audiobooks, or electronica ones. :-) I’ve come to appreciate Braille for that reason alone lately.

I learned Braille throughout most of my public schooling and I got right up to some basic computer Braille and nemeth code. Nowadays I mostly use it to read the numbers on lifts, and even then I only do it when I can't find the embossed print numbers. When I learned braille I didn't actually need it all that much but now I'm fully blind. I still don't really like it and I'm very very glad that speech synthesizers and screen readers are as good as they are now. I'd really rather not go back to Braille.

Currently there are only really two situations where I feel like I would genuinely benefit from Braille. The first is with restaurant menus, but I usually try to find an online menu and if they don't have it online menu I'm willing to put up with someone reading it to me if the restaurant is good. The second is if I were reading lines from a script for some sort of recording but I can get around this with a little bit of memorization and some minor editing in iMovie or audacity.